Copenhagen (Denmark), February 9, 2015 (SPS) - Africa Contact has urged Crans Montana Forum not to hold its forum in the occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara.
“Africa Contact urges Crans Montana Forum to move its forum in March from Africa’s last colony, Moroccan occupied Western Sahara,” indicated an article published Wednesday on its official website, by Peter Kenworthy.
Birlehlu (Liberated Territories), February 8, 2015 (SPS) -President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Mohamed Abdelaziz paid tribute to the "warm solidarity and unflinching support" of Algerian late novelist Assia Djebar to the cause of the Saharawi people.
Smara (Refugee Camps), February 8, 2015 (SPS) - Polisario Front said it is determined to cooperate with the UN Secretary-General's special representative and head of the MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara), Kim Bolduc.
Polisario Front's stance has been expressed by Saharawi Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar, while meeting, in Smara, Kim Bolduc, who has taken over from German Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber, whose term in office ended on 31 July 2014.
Boujdour (refugee camps), February 8, 2015 (SPS) - The Executive Bureau of the National Union of Saharawi Women (NUSW) announced Saturday, after a meeting chaired by the Secretary General, Fatma Elmehdi, the list of the members of the preparatory committee of the 7th congress which comprises 35 members.
The preparatory committee of the 7th Congress of the NUSW will hold its first meeting Wednesday, in the headquarters of the union in the wilaya of Boujdour, it should be noted. (SPS)
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El Aaiun (Occupied Territories), February 8, 2015 (SPS) - was killed Wednesday following a brutal attack by 5 Moroccan settlers, in the occupied city of El which required his immediate transfer to a hospital located in the city of Agadir (Southwest Morocco), according with the sources of the Saharawi Ministry of the Occupied Territories and Diaspora.
El Aaiun (occupied Territories), February 8, 2015 (SPS) - The Moroccan occupation forces repressed Saturday a peaceful demonstration demanding evacuation of the Moroccan occupation, according to the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Community Abroad.
The demonstrators expressed support to the Sahrawi political prisoners in the Moroccan jails and condemned the systematic repressive practices which the Saharwi people are subject to.
Smara (Refugee Camps) – UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Western Sahara Kim Bolduc said Saturday in the Saharawi refugee camps that the UN is acutely aware of the need to reach a solution to Western Sahara issue.
In a statement to the press after a meeting with Sahrawi Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Amar, the UN official said that he was closely monitoring the situation since his appointment in May 2014, through the teams activating in Western Sahara and in the Sahrawi refugee camps.
Birlehlu (Liberated Territories), February 8, 2015 (SPS) - President of Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Mohamed Abdelaziz, in a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, said holding Crans Montana forum in the occupied town of Dakhla is a "flagrant violation of the international law."
Wilaya of Smara (Refugee Camps), February 7, 2015 (SPS) – The Prime Minister, Abdelkader Taleb Omar, reiterated Saturday in the Wilaya of Smara, Sahrawi refugee camps, the full cooperation of the Polisario Front with UN Secretary General Special Representative for Western Sahara, Head of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), Ms. Kim Bolduc, to facilitate her mission which mainly aimed at the organization of a referendum to decide the future of the Saharawi people.
Wilaya of Smara (Refugee Camps), February 7, 2015 (SPS) – The UN Secretary General Special Representative for Western Sahara, Head of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), Ms. Kim Bolduc, expressed her belief in the necessity of finding a” just and lasting” solution to the conflict in Western Sahara and the need for establishing peace and security in the region which the United Nations has been working on since 60 years.
Wilaya of Smara (Refugee Camps), February 7, 2015 (SPS) – The UN Secretary General Special Representative for Western Sahara, Head of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), Ms. Kim Bolduc, held official talks Saturday evening in the Wilaya of Smara, the Sahrawi refugee camps, with members of the Polisario Front and Sahrawi government.
Wilaya of Smara (Refugee Camps), February 7, 2015 (SPS) – The UN Secretary General Special Representative for Western Sahara, Head of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), Ms. Kim Bolduc, arrived Saturday morning in the Sahrawi refugee camps, for the first time since her appointment in May 2014.
Accra (Ghana), February 7, 2015 (SPS) - The Ghana Forum on Western Sahara is calling on Swiss-based Crans Montana Forum (CMF), to reconsider their decision to hold an extra-ordinary meeting in Dakhla, a city of Western Sahara, illegally occupied by Morocco, against international law, in statement Thursday.
Brussels, Feb 6, 2015 (SPS) - The Council on Ethics of the Norwegian government pension fund has recommended blacklisting of the US/Mexican fertilizer producer Innophos due to phosphate imports from Western Sahara, said Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW).
Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Feb 6, 2015 (SPS) - The UN Secretary General’s Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), Ms. Kim Bolduc of Canada, will embark Saturday on a visit to the Saharawi refugee camps, first since her appointment in May 2014.
The UN Envoy will be granted a public reception in the Wilaya of Smara, Saharawi refugee camps.
Brussels, Feb 6, 2015 (SPS) - Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) on Friday marks the 10 anniversary of its establishment as an international coalition for the protection of natural resources in Western Sahara, occupied illegally by Morocco since 1975.
According to a statement issued on their website, the NGO will has later this day an international board of seven, and a secretary based in Belgium
Bir Lehlou (liberated zones), Feb 6, 2015 (SPS) - The Frente Polisario on Thursday declared that according to international law, the Crans Montana Forum cannot be celebrated in the occupied city of Dajla.
The communiqué indicated that despite numerous warnings addressed to them, lately of which by the African Union, the Crans Montana Forum intends to hold from 12th to 14th March 2015 an international conference on economic cooperation and development in Dajla, a Western Sahara occupied city presented as if it is a Moroccan city.
Geneva, Feb 5, 2015 (SPS) - The Swiss Committee of Support to the Saharawi People on Thursday called, in a statement, on the Crans Montana Forum not to celebrate its seminar in the occupied city of Dajla, Western Sahara, adding this would constitute a “grave mistake.”
The Committee indicated that the holding of the Forum is a violation of international law and resolutions of the United Nations, adding “it is fully incompatible with the objectives of this Forum which seeks to bring peace among people.”
Chahid Al hafed (refugee camps), Feb 5, 2015 (SPS) - Foreign Ministry Spokesperson has refuted the propaganda promoted in the recent days by Moroccan media of secret contacts between the Frente Polisario and Morocco in France.
In a statement to SPS, the source indicated that such rumors aim to divert the Moroccan public opinion in particular and the world as a whole from the defeats of Moroccan occupation, last of which AU Summit’s condemnation of Moroccan occupation of parts of the territory of the Saharawi Republic (SADR).
Bir Lehlou (liberated zones), Feb 5, 2015 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, said that the holding of Crans Montana Forum in the occupied Saharawi city of Dajla “violates” international law, adding that it undermines the ongoing UN to find a just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution to the conflict of Western Sahara.