September 2015

 El Aaiun (Occupied Territories) Sept 10, 2015 (SPS) - The Moroccan occupation authorities prevented on Monday, the Spanish lawyer and human rights activist Mr. Luis Magrané, from traveling to the occupied city of El Aaiun , said Sahrawi human rights source.

 “The Moroccan authorities arrested him at Casablanca airport, and told him that he was banned from traveling to the occupied territories of Western Sahara without knowing the reasons behind his prevention.” said Luis to the Sahrawi National Radio.

Havana(Cuba), Sept 10, 2015 (SPS) - Sahrawi Ambassador to Cuba, Mr. Malainin Etgana met on Wednesday the Cuban acting Minister of Education Ms. Cira Piñeiro Alonso, in the presence of Mr. Orlando Requeijo director of North Africa and the Middle East at the Ministry of the Cuban Foreign Affairs.
 

The meeting discussed the bilateral relations between the two countries in the field of education, especially the efforts that the Cuban Ministry of Education provided to its Sahrawi counterpart such as in the school of Simon Bolivar.

 Ait Melloul (Morocco), Sept 10 2015 (SPS) - the Sahrawi political prisoner Ibrahim El Buhiti was subject to physical and verbal repression by a prison staff, indicated The Executive Office of the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights (CODESA).
 

 According to his family, Ibrahim sufferedill-treatment by the prison administration in Ait Melloul. 
 

Algeria, Sept 09, 2015 (SPS) - member of the National Secretariat, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Mohamed Salem Ould Salek has denounced the illegal exploitation of Sahrawi natural resources by foreign companies in complicit with the Moroccan occupation authorities in flagrant violation of international law which prevents the exploitation of natural resources in Western Sahara which has not yet decided its fate.

Queensland (Australia), Sept 09, 2015 (SPS) - The senator Ms. Claire Moore has presented on Tuesday an intervention before the Australian senate about the situation of the Sahrawi people after 24 years since the ceasefire agreement between Polisario Front, and Morocco came into effect.

Algiers, Sept 09, 2015 (SPS) -Saharawi Foreign Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Salek called on United Nations Secretary-General's Personal Envoy to Western Sahara Christopher Ross, on Tuesday, to "tell the truth about the obstacles he is facing" while fulfilling his mission, to find a solution ensuring Saharawi people's right to self -determination.

Copenhagen, (Denmark) Sept 9^th, 2015 (SPS) – The member of the Parliament,  Mr.

Chahid Hafed (Sahrawi Refugee Camps), Sept 09, 2015 (SPS) - The personal envoy of the United Nations Secretary General for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross ended Monday a visit to the Sahrawi refugee camps as part of the UN efforts for the resumption of Polisario Front-Morocco negotiations, which are at the standstill because of Rabat's intransigence.

Algeria, Sept 09, 2015 (SPS)- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will pay a visit to the region as part of the efforts aiming at settling a conflict in Western Sahara, said Tuesday in Algiers Sahrawi Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Salem Ould Salek.

The UN Secretary General "intends to pay a visit to the region, Ould Salek told a press conference without giving further details.

Shaheed Hafed (Refugee Camps), Sept 09, 2015 (SPS) - Prime Minister Mr. Abdelkader Taleb Omar, received on Monday Ecuadorian Ambassador to the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) Mr. Jose Rafael Serrano.

Algeria, September 8, 2015 (SPS) - Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Mohamed Salem Ould Salek has strongly denounced Moroccan intransigence towards the international legitimacy, calling on the United Nations to further efforts to hold a referendum of self-determination to the Saharawi people at press conference in the Sahrawi Embassy in Algiers.

Shaheed Hafed (Refugee Camps), Sept 08, 2015 (SPS) - Member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front and Prime Minister, Mr. Abdelkader Taleb Omar, has reiterated Polisario Front willingness to cooperate with United Nation in its efforts to find solution for Western Sahara issue, calling UN to further pressure on Morocco to comply with the international legality which enables the Sahrawi people to exercise their right of self-determination through fair,just and impartial referendum under the auspices of UN. 

Smara(occupied territories), 08 Sept 2015 (SPS) -  Saharawi citizen  Afneina Lakhdar   in ninth month of pregnancy with her son Al-Busati Khalihenna, were victims of  a brutal aggression by  Moroccan forces, after that they were taken to hospital, said source from the Occupied Territories.

These attacks, assaults and threats are part of the Moroccan occupation policies which impose the occupied city of Smara in a strong military siege. (SPS)

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Smara (Occupied Territories), 7 Sept 2015 (SPS) - The Students in the occupied city of Smara organized a peaceful demonstration Sunday in the neighborhoods of Tantan, Said Dambar and Asakani to condemn the holding of the Moroccan elections in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, according to the Ministry of the Occupied Territories and Community Abroad.

The participants in the protest raised flags of the Saharawi Republic and chanted slogans such as calling for an independent Sahrawi state.

Shaheed Hafed (Refugee Camps), Sept 5, 2015 (SPS) - Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara, Mr. Christopher Ross, held Saturday a working session with members of the Polisario Front negotiating delegation, in Shaheed Hafed, Sahrawi refugee camps.

New York, 6 Sept 2015 (SPS) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Friday the appointment of Major General Muhammad Tayyab Azam of Pakistan as the Force Commander of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).

Major General Azam will succeed Major General Major Imam Edy Mulyono of Indonesia, whose tour of duty ends on 17 September 2015. 

 Shaheed Hafed, 5 Sept 2015 (SPS) - Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General Mr. Christopher Ross arrived Saturday in the Saharawi refugee camps.

 The UN envoy who is on a working visit to the camp three days was received by the Polisario representative to the UN, Ahmed Boukhari.

The UN envoy will hold this afternoon a meeting with the members of the Saharawi negotiating delegation and is expected to hold meetings with officials of the SADR and Polisario. (SPS)

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 Brazzaville (Congo), 04/09/15 (SPS) - The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic participates, with a delegation led by Minister of Sports and Youth Mr. Mohamed Moloud Mohamed Fadel, in the XI edition of the African Games, kicked off Friday in the Congolese capital, Brazzaville.

Copenhagen, (Denmark) Sept 3, 2015 (SPS) – The Representative of POLISARIO front to Denmark, Mr. Abba Malainin, was received Thursday by Alexander Grant Pedersen, Chairman of the Danish Social Democratic Youth (DSU), Maj Luise, Vice President and Ida Pactau, Vice President and member of the International board of DSU.

Addis Ababa, 3 Sep. 2015 (SPS) - The African Union (AU) has issued a legal opinion agreeing that any exploration and exploitation of natural resources in Western Sahara by Morocco is illegal as it violates international law and resolutions of the United Nations and the African Union relating to the right to self-determination and permanent sovereignty of the people of Western Sahara over their natural resources.