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Addis Ababa, Jan 29, 2015 (SPS) - The Executive Council of the African Union on Wednesday adopted, at the end of its 26th ordinary session, the report of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), about the of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.


In its report, the ACHPR voiced “grave concern” over the continuous illegal occupation of the territories of Western Sahara, which the Commission could not visit.

Algiers, Jan 29, 2015 (SPS) - Bodies of six missing Saharawis were exhumed from three new communal graves, discovered recently by Spanish experts in the region of Smara near Amgala, said Wednesday President of the Association of Families of Sahrawi Prisoners and Disappeared (AFAPREDESA) Abdesslam Omar.

Mijek (liberated zones), Jan 28, 2015 (SPS) - One person was killed and 3 other people injured last Saturday in landmine explosion occurred in an area called Al-Nas Valley in the Saharawi occupied city of Smara, 83 Km from the liberated zone of Mijek, said Saharawi Mine Action Coordination Office.


For the source, the blast took place in the 3-km buffer zone from the Moroccan Shame Wall that divides Western Sahara.

Algiers, Jan 28, 2015 (SPS) - Algeria and Niger reaffirm, in a joint statement issued on Tuesday at the end of the state visit of Niger’s President MahamadouIssoufou to Algeria, at the invitation of President of the Republic AbdelazizBouteflika, their support to the efforts of the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to reach a mutually acceptable peaceful solution to the Western Sahara conflict."

Copenhagen, Jan 28, 2015 (SPS) - The Danish Red-Green Alliance Party has expressed “firm support” to the right of the Saharawi people to Self-determination and independence, said Tuesday MP Christian Juhl in a meeting with Mr. Abba Malainin, POLISARIO Representative to Denmark.


The Danish official voiced his party’s support to the “strict respect” of human rights in Western Sahara, calling for the need to mandate the MINURSO with human rights monitoring in occupied Western Sahara.

Addis Ababa, Jan 27, 2015 (SPS) - A Saharawi delegation chaired by Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, takes part at the 26th Ordinary Session of the AU Executive Council, kicked off Monday in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia.


The delegation also composed of the Minister in Charge of Africa, Hamdi Beiha, the Permanent Representative to the AU, Lamine Baali, Secretary General of Women Union, Fatma Mehdi. (SPS)


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El Aaiun (occupied territories), Jan 27, 2015 (SPS) - Saharawi prisoner, Abdelbagi Aliyen Antahah, on Monday died of torture inside the Moroccan Black Prison, said the Saharawi ministry of occupied territories, diaspora and rural areas.


According to the source, Abdelbagi, 22 years old, was undergoing a-year-and-a-half prison sentence, before being attacked to death by the jail’s administration.


In solitary confinement since Wednesday, the prisoner was subjected to severe torture until he lost consciousness.

Algiers, Jan 27, 2015 (SPS) - President of the Saharawi Red Crescent (CRS), Yahia Buhobeini, warned Tuesday the international community against attempts to discourage donors in granting the aid to Sahrawi refugees after the recent release of an EU report on humanitarian aid from 2007.

Washington, Jan 27, 2015 (SPS) - Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights has called upon the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), which prepares to, to hold Morocco to account for violating the rights the people of the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara.

Havana (Cuba), January 27, 2015 (SPS) - Cuban Students Union voiced “unconditioned” solidarity with the just struggle of Sahrawi people, expressing commitment to continue sensitizing about the Saharawi cause.


In a meeting with the responsible of Saharawi students currently in Cuba, External Relations Secretary of the Cuban Students Union expressed commitment to continue awareness action in the country about the Saharawi cause.

Addis Ababa, Jan 27, 2015 (SPS) - Zimbabwe Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, on Monday underlined that Western Sahara remains “core issue” on agenda of the African Union (AU) and a “big responsibility” on its shoulders.


Speaking at the 26th ordinary session of the AU Executive Council, underway in Addis Ababa, Minister Mumbengegwi said: “the right to self-determination is a principle the African peoples and AU have fought for.”

Algiers, Jan 27, 2015 (SPS) - US State Department official affirmed on Sunday, that the United States has not changed its position with regard to the conflict in Western Sahara, and still supports the UN efforts to reach a peaceful, lasting and mutually acceptable solution.

Birlehlu  (Liberated Territories), January 26, 2015 (SPS) – President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, urged  the UN Security Council to stop seabed oil drilling on the coast of occupied Western Sahara, considering the drilling operation underway in Western Sahara as “a serious provocation and a real threat to peace and stability in Western Sahara and the Maghreb region,” in a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Below is the full text of the letter:

Birlehlu  (Liberated Territories), January 26, 2015 (SPS) – President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, sent a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, protesting Kosmos Energy drilling activities and urging the UN Security Council to stop seabed oil drilling on the coast of occupied Western Sahara. President Abdeaziz considered the drilling operation underway in Western Sahara as “a serious provocation and a real threat to peace and stability in Western Sahara and the Maghreb region.”

Birlehlu (Liberated Territories), January 26, 2015 (SPS) – Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Salem Ould Salek confirmed Saturday “the plans of the Moroccan occupying State that aim to involve actors from around the world, including African entities, in our country must be strongly condemned and boycotted because they violate the Charter and the resolutions of the African Union and the United Nations, in a letter to Her Excellency Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission.

Following is the complete text of the letter:  

Birlehlu (Liberated Territories), January 26, 2015 (SPS) – Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Salem Ould Salek urged Saturday the African Union to take all necessary steps and actions at the AU level and to make representations to the Chairman of the Crans Montana Forum and the associated partners and sponsors in order to refrain from holding their forum in the occupied parts of an AU Member State, the Sahrawi Republic.

Shaheed Elhafedh, January 25, 2015 (SPS) The Saharawi human rights activist, President of the Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave human rights violations (ASVDH), Brahim Dahane,called the most influential members of the UN to act as the guarantor of peace and mediation, in an interview with Swiss newspaper, mail, published in its Saturday edition.

Ait Melloul (Morocco) January 25, 2015 (SPS) – the Saharawi political prisoner Abdul Khaliq Almuati, suffers a serious health situation, due to complications of the open hunger strike he started ten days ago in the Moroccan jail Ait Melloul.

Brussels (Belgium), January 25, 2015 (SPS) - European Anti-Fraud Office (EAFO)'s report about EU humanitarian aid to Sahrawi refugees, dating from 2007, was "exhumed" from their archives with the aim of "misleading and distracting" Europe, Mohamed Sidati, the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)'s deputy minister for Europe, said Saturday in a statement.

The "exhumation" of the report "amounts simply to a manipulative and ill-informed attempt to taint the image of the Polisario Front and the Sahrawi refugees," the statement underlined.

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) January 25, 2015 (SPS) – A delegation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), including the Secretary General of the Women Union, Fatma Elmehdi, and Senior Advisor at the Sahrawi embassy in Ethiopia, Baba Omar Elbardi, took part Saturday at the third ministerial Congress of the African states signatory to the convention on the establishment of the African Agency for Disaster Risk Reduction.