Addis Ababa, April 30, 2015 (SPS) - The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) has “deeply” regretted Thursday that the UN Security Council did not respond to the AU request to allow its special envoy for Western Sahara, Joaquim Chissano, addressing this body.
Smara (refugee camps), April 30, 2015 (SPS) - Moroccan occupying forces on Thursday morning intervened violently against a group of Saharawi citizens in the occupied city of Smara, leaving some casualties.
Saharawi female citizen Fatma Bouasriya, who are pregnant, and the human rights activist Hamma Mbarek held a sit-in in a place called Al-Kayz, outside the occupied Saharawi city of Smara, before being attacked violently by Moroccan forces of occupation.
Lima, April 30, 2015 (SPS) - Peruvian Council of Solidarity with the Sahrawi People (COPESA in Spanish) welcomed, Wednesday, the renewal for a year of the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), dubbing this decision a “clear answer” to the Moroccan occupation which requested, behind the scenes, the cessation of this mission in the occupied territories.
Dajla (refugee camps), April 30, 2015 (SPS) - South African Ambassador in the Saharawi Republic (SADR), Mr. Dennis T. Dlomo, called Thursday from the Saharawi refugee camps for an international day of solidarity with the struggle of the Saharawi people for freedom and emancipation.
Vienna, April 30, 2015 (SPS) - Austria’s Parliament has called on its government to make efforts, within the framework of the European Union (EU), to extend UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) prerogatives to the monitoring of human rights situation in Western Sahara.
Dajla (refugee camps), April 30, 2015 (SPS) - The organizing committee of the International Film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSahara) on Thursday morning organized a political seminar about the struggle for emancipation and decolonization in Western Sahara.
Algiers, April 30, 2015 (SPS) - The Algerian National Committee of Solidarity with the Saharawi People (CNASPS) said Wednesday it is “satisfied” that UN still considers Western Sahara conflict as decolonization question.
Dajla (refugee camps), April 29, 2015 (SPS) - The Minister of Culture Ms. Khadija Hamdi on Wednesday indicated that culture, particularly cinema, can bring people together regardless of their religions, cultures and geographical distance.
Dajla (refugee camps), April 29, 2015 (SPS) - Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar said UN’s credibility and seriousness remain “dependent” on how to put into reality the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination, renewing appeal to the Spanish Government to assume its historical and moral responsibility vis-à-vis the decolonization path in Western Sahara.
Dajla (refugee camps), April 29, 2015 (SPS) - The festivities of the twelfth edition of the International Film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSahara) on Wednesday evening started officially, in the presence of international actors, filmmakers, activists and journalists, as well as human rights activists from the occupied Saharawi territories.
El Aaiun (occupied territories), April 29, 2015 (SPS) - Moroccan court of occupation in the city of El Aaiun, capital of the occupied Western Sahara, on Wednesday postponed until 30 June 2015 the trial of six Saharawi political prisoners, now in temporary release status.
The detainees are: Mohamed Ali Saadi, Yusef Buzeid, Mohamed Karnit, Yasin Sidati, Aziz Hramch and Hafed Toubali.
Abuja, April 29, 2015 (SPS) - Ambassador Ubbi Bachraya Bachir on Tuesday received by the new President-elect of Nigeria, General Mohammed Buhari, at his temporary residence in the capital Abuja, to deliver a congratulatory letter from the President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz.
Dajla (refugee camps), April 29, 2015 (SPS) - The local festival of culture and folk arts on Wednesday morning kicked off in the province of Dajla, Saharawi refugee camps, in parallel with FiSahara festival, to open this evening.
The ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar, Culture Minister Khadija Hamdi, members of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front and Saharawi Government, in addition to the delegations attending FiSahara 2015.
Dajla (refugee camps), April 29, 2015 (SPS) - The universal justice, victims of disappearances, and other crimes against humanity are issues to dominate the activities of this year’s edition of the International Film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSara), on Wednesday said Ms. María Carrión, FiSahara Executive Director.
Chahid Al-Hafed, 28/04/2015 (SPS)- The Minister of Culture, Prof. JadiyaHamdi, received yesterday the delegations of Algeria and South Africa attrending the Western Sahara International Film Festival-FISAHARA.
Minister JadiyaHamdi hosted a Lunch in honor of the two delegations and welcomed them for their support and solidarity. “Algeria and South Africa are brother and allies, and without their presence and participation the cultural events would be meaningless”, she said.
London, April 29, 2015 (SPS) - The Organization Oxfam International called on the UN Security Council and the international community to work for the resolution of the Western Saharan conflict currently confined in a “stalemate”.
Algiers, April 28, 2015 (SPS) - Algeria said, through the voice of the spokesman of its Foreign Affairs Ministry Abdelaziz Benali Cherif, is satisfied the UN’s commitment, in the Security Council Resolution 2218, to a political just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution which provides for the auto-determination of the people of Western Sahara in accordance with principles and objectives of the United Nations Charter and resolutions of the General Assembly, the Security Council and the universal Decolonization doctrine.
New York, April 29, 2015 (SPS) - “The peace process in Western Sahara cannot remain indefinitely hostage of the blackmail of the Moroccan occupier,” stated Mr. Boukhari Ahmed, Polisario Front’s Representative to the UN, in press statement issued following the adoption by the Security Council of the Resolution 2218 on Western Sahara on Tuesday.
New York, April 28, 2015 (SPS) - The UN Security Council unanimously adopted Tuesday the 2218 Resolution on Western Sahara, in which it called for intensifying the negotiations between the parties to the conflict, the Frente Polisario and Morocco, in the aim to reach a jut and durable political solution to the question of Western Sahara.
Dajla (refugee camps), April 28, 2015 (SPS) - The province of Dajla, Saharawi refugee camps, will host from April 29th until May 03th activities of the twelfth edition of the International Film Festival in Western Sahara, known as FiSahara, held under the theme “Universal Declaration.”
The event will be attended by several delegations from all continents, of which actors, filmmakers, cinema directors, human rights defenders and sympathizers with the national cause.