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Aragon(Spain) Sept 15, 2015 (SPS) - The leader of Podemos party in the province of Aragon Mr. Echenique, affirmed his support for the rights of the Saharawi people to freedom and independence.

“We support the Sahrawi right to freedom and independence and we will redouble our efforts within the parliamentary group of solidarity.” Said Echenique during his meeting with the Polisario Front representative to Aragon Mr. Sidahmed Darbal in the local headquarter of the parliament.  

 Birlehlu (Liberated Territories), September 13, 2015 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, sent Sunday letter of congratulations to Mr. Jeremy Corbyn on the winning of the British Labour Party elections, whose results were released Saturday.

Shaheed Hafed, 13 Sept 2015 (SPS) - Minister of Education Ms. Mariem Salek Hmada along with the Director of cooperation and solidarity of Autonomous University of Madrid, Ms. Silvia Iris, supervised Saturday the launch of project for distance training,

The launch was attended by Prime Minister Mr. Abdelkader Taleb Omar, the representative of the Polisario Front in Spain Mr. Hamoudi Bushraya Beyoun as well as members of the SADR government.

 Tantan (Southern Morocco) 13September 2015 (SPS) - Sahrawi Media activist and coordinator of media team “Equipe Media” Mohamed Mayara was exposed Friday evening to harassment and provocation by Moroccan security men, in the presence of the members of his family while they were in the southern Morocco city of Tantan, reported the Ministry of the Occupied Territories and community Abroad.

 Agadir (Morocco), 13 Sept 2015 (SPS) - The Moroccan Court in Agadir has set 27 October, for the trial of Sahrawi political prisoner Embarek Dawdi, according to the Ministry of the Occupied Territories and Communities Abroad.

 The setting of the date comes after Embarek Dawdi proceeded Tuesday on a hunger strike for 48 hours.

London, 12 Sept 2015 (SPS) - The north London MP and Chair of The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Western Sahara, Jeremy Corbyn, has been elected leader of the British Labour party with nearly 59.5% of first-preference votes.

The new leader is known for his strong and uncompromising stand in favor of the Saharawi people's struggle for self-determination and independence.

Shaheed Hafed, 11 Sept 2015 (SPS) - Sahrawi Workers Union UGTSARIO has expressed strong condemnation to the decision of the Moroccan authorities to block the visit of the mission of International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) to the occupied territories of Western Sahara which was planned for the next week.

In a statement Thursday, UGTSARIO considered the blockade as a chapter of the series of the police suffocating siege imposed on the Sahrawi community in the occupied territories.

Brussels (Belgium), 10 Sept. 2015 (SPS) – The Moroccan authorities has blocked the mission of International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) to the occupied territories of Western Sahara which was planned for the next week.

ITUC Deputy General Secretary, Jaap Wienen, confirmed in a statement that the reason behind the blockade was that the Sahrawi community in the occupied territories “would use the opportunity of our mission to organise big mobilisations on the roads of Laayoune , which especially in a period of elections would lead to confrontations”.

 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.