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Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Feb 19, 2015 (SPS) - The 15th edition of Sahara Marathon, an annual international sport demonstration, will be celebrated next Tuesday, February 24th, in the Saharawi refugee camps, said the organizers.


According to the source, this year’s edition will be dedicated to shedding light on the Saharawi children’s rights.


The Sahara Marathon includes the 42km standard-distance marathon (main), in addition to shorter distances of 21km, 10km, 5km and the children’s race.

Chahid Al hafed (refugee camps), Feb 19, 2015 (SPS) - The Council of Ministers on Thursday condemned, in the strongest term, the Moroccan occupying state’s policies of procrastination and obstruction to the international efforts, demanding action from the UN to decolonize the last colony in Africa, Western Sahara.

Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Feb 19 (SPS) - A new batch of the National Gendarmerie Force, the batch of martyr Mhamed Mohamed Abdallahi Rahel, on Thursday graduated.


The graduation ceremony was overseen by the President of the Republic, Supreme Commande-in-Chief of Armed Forces and General-Secretary of the Frente Polisario Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, in the presence of Prime Minister Abdelkader Omar and Defense Minister Mohamed Lamin Bouhali, along other members of the National Secretariat and Government. (SPS)

Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Feb 19, 2015 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, and Secretary General of the Frente Polisario, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, on Thursday morning chaired a meeting of the Staff of the General Command of Saharawi People’s Liberation Army.


Convened at the Ministry of National Defense, the meeting examined the army’s readiness and set future programmes.

Chahid Al hafed (refugee camps), Feb 19, 2015 (SPS) - Secretary General of Saharawi Women Union (UNMS) has clarified that holding 2015 session of the Crans Montana Forum will be contrary to the rights and interests of the Saharawi people, adding it will be “tantamount” to rewarding Morocco for its unabated human right violations against the Saharawis.

Berne (Switzerland), Feb 19, 2015 (SPS) - The Swiss Federal Councillor Foreign Affairs, Mr. Didier Burkhalter, said his country will not take part in the Crans Montana Forum, to be held in the occupied Saharawi city of Dajla, clarifying Switzerland’s position on Western Sahara issue.

Paris, Feb 18, 2018 (SPS) - The Platform for Solidarity with the Saharawi People in France has asked French President Francois Hollande to support the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination, which can only be realized through a referendum consistent with the values of the French Republic and international law.

Algiers, Feb 18, 2015 (SPS) - Personal Envoy of UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, is expected Wednesday in Algiers, as part of his regional tour, which began last Saturday, said Algeria Foreign Ministry in a statement.


This new tour which ends on 23 February and is the fifth of its kind since Ross’s appointment in 2009, is part of the UN efforts to revive the settlement process of Western Sahara question, said the source.

El Aaiun (occupied territories), Feb 18, 2015 (SPS) - Moroccan occupying forces have kidnapped the Sahrawi minor boy, Brahim Mraikl, on the ground of his participation in a peaceful demonstration, stated the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA).


According to the source, the minor boy was beaten and verbally insulted by Moroccan policemen.


In his testimony, Mraikl noted that he was injured at several parts of his body, specifically his left hand, shoulder and the mouth. (SPS)

Tiznit (Morocco), Feb 18, 2015 (SPS) - The Saharawi political prisoener, Abdellahi Boukyud, on Wednesday started an open hunger strike in protest to the physical assault and verbal abuse he experienced inside the Moroccan Prison of Tiznit, said a source of the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Communities Abroad.


Boukyud was arbitrarily arrested in the city of Guleimim, southern Morocco in 2013. He is now serving a 4-year prison term.

El Aaiun (occupied territories), Feb 18, 2015 (SPS) - The Saharawi female citizen, Lalla Al-Mosawi, has lost her 5-month baby after being subject to torture at the hand of Moroccan occupying police, said right sources.


“She (Lalla) had underwent medical examinations after she found thrown outside the city limits. She was kidnapped by policemen in a civil car, before threatened to be raped,” stated Ghali Sweyah, housband of the victim.

Sale (Morocco), Feb 18, 2015 (SPS) - The Saharawi political prisoners incarcerated in Moroccan Sale Jail, known as Gdeim Izik detainees, have urged the Security Council to pressurize the Moroccan state to establish a UN mechanism to protect human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.

Bir Lehlou (liberated zones), Feb 17, 2015 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz on Tuesday offered his condolences to the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mrs. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, over the terrorist attacks that took place in Copenhagen on Sunday, February 15th.

Bir Lehlou (liberated zones), Feb 17, 2015 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente Polisario, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, on Tuesday sent a condolence message to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi over the terrorist act that killed 21 Egyptian nationals living in Libya.


In the message, President Mohamed Abdelaziz condemned this act, seizing this difficult time to express solidarity with the people of Egypt and with relatives of the victims.

Algiers, Feb 17, 2015 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente Polisario Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz on Tuesday received at Djenane El Mithak, the official residence of the President of Algeria and his official guests, the Algerian Prime Minister, Mr. Abdelamek Sellal.


The meeting was also attended by Mr. Ramtane Lamamra, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria.

El Aaiun (occupied territories), Feb 17, 2015 (SPS) - Moroccan occupying court on Monday delayed, for the third time in a raw, until next Monday the trial of the Saharawi political prisoner, Abdeljaleg Al-Markhi.


Al-Markhi, on hunger strike, is now serving a 4-year jail sentence.


He was arrested on the ground of his human rights activism and his participation in various demonstrations calling for the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence. (SPS)


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Valencia (Spain), Feb 17, 2015 (SPS) - The Socialist International Mediterranean Committee has decided, at the end of its meeting convened on 13-14 February 2015 in Valencia (Spain), to send a mission to Western Sahara next May.


This mission will be headed by Antonio Yáñez, former diplomat from the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE).

London, Feb 17, 2015 (SPS) - The UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Mr. Tobias Ellwood, has reaffirmed his country’s support to the UN-led efforts to find a durable a mutually acceptable political solution, ensuring the right to self-determination for the Saharawi people.


Mr. Ellwood said the ministry is consistently discussing the issue of human rights in Western Sahara when meeting with its counterparts in the world, lastly of which was in New York last January.

Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Feb 17, 2015 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, on Monday called on the United Nations to put pressure on the Moroccan regime to create the necessary conditions to organize a referendum on self-determination in Western Sahara.

Stockholm, February 16, 2015 (SPS) – Swedish foreign minister, Margot Wallstrom, has reaffirmed that Sweden is opposed to the exploitation of Western Sahara’s natural resources by Morocco.