February 2016

Bir Lahlou(liberated territories of SADR), February 11,2016 (SPS) .- The United Nations Security Council voiced Wednesday its full support for the planned visit of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to Western Sahara, according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

At the initiative of Venezuela, that chairs the Security Council for the month of February, the Council addressed on Wednesday afternoon February 10, the question of Western Sahara and its latest developments.
 

Geneva, February 11, 2016 (SPS) .- The implementation of the international humanitarian law on the issue of Western Sahara, in the 8th edition of “wounded memory” devoted this year to the Sahrawi cause, is the theme of a conference held Tuesday, in Geneva, in the presence of the representative of the Polisario Front in Switzerland Maima Abdessalam and several specialists in international law.

Bir Lahlou(liberated territories of SADR), February 11,2016 (SPS) .- The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz asked the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon not allow any official of his organization to participate in the next meeting of the Forum of Crans Montana in the occupied city of Dajla.

President Mohamed Abdelaziz recalled the responsibility of the UN in Western Sahara, a territory in the process of decolonization.
 

Paris,February 09, 2016 (SPS) - The organization UNESCO has expressed its rejection to the holding of Crans Montana Forum in the occupied city of Dajla in Western Sahara recalling that the territory is under the responsibility of the UN and is a question of decolonization.

Agadir(Morocco), February 10, 2016 (SPS) .- The Court of Appeal in Agadir (Morocco), decided on Monday to keep arbitrary sentence of five years in prison against the Saharawi political prisoner Embarek Daudi, which was issued on 03 December 2015, according to the Ministry of the Occupied Territories and Community Abroad.

Dajla, February 09, 2016 (SPS) - Sahrawi women and their counterparts Swedish, on Monday called the Swedish government, all political parties, the institutions and civil society organizations, to support the efforts calling for the embodiment of the recognition of Saharwi Arab Democratic Republic by Sweden.  .

Ljubljana (Slovenia) February 09, 2016 (SPS) - the Slovenian Institute for Studies on the Western Sahara said that the holding of Crans Montana forum in occupied Dajla is a new challenge to the international legality by the Kingdom of Morocco.

Moscow, February 09, 2016 (SPS) -The General Council of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) reiterated its support to the Saharawi people struggle for freedom and independence, calling on the UN to accelerate the decolonization of the last colony in Africa , Western Sahara.

In a statement closing its General Council held in Moscow, the Federation expressed solidarity with the struggle of young Saharawis against the Moroccan occupier for self-determination and independence.

Shaheed El Hafed, 8 Feb 2016 (SPS) - The Bureau of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front reiterated Sunday the readiness of the Saharawi Republic to cooperate with the neighboring countries to confront the security threats and comply with international law, peace and stability in the world, in fulfillment of international commitments in the framework of the African Union.

Shaheed El Hafed (Refugee camps), 8 Feb 2016 (SPS) The Bureau of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front affirmed that the Sahrawi people leads a liberation struggle against the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara and not a conflict with the brotherly Moroccan people, in a statement following its meeting Sunday chaired by the President of Republic, Secretary General of the Front Polisario, Mohamed Abdelaziz.

Shaheed El Hafed, February 8, 2016 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz , has condemned the incitement campaign and dissemination of unrest carried out by the Moroccan regime against Saharawi through fabrication of ethnic conflicts between Saharawi students and their Amazigh counterparts in the Moroccan university sites.

El Aaiun (occupied territories), February 7, 2016 (SPS) The Moroccan court in the occupied city of El Aaiun on Friday sentenced four unemployed young Saharawi to six months in prison and a fine of 1000 DH, according to Sahrawi judicial sources.

The sentence was issued against Djedna Garfa, Raha Younes, Said Lbraigi et Ahmed Zawi.

Asa (South of Morocco), 7 Feb 2016 (SPS) - Sahrawi human rights activist Alisalem Tamek started Saturday an open-ended sit-in in the Principal Square in Assa, South of Morocco, to protest against being systematically banned from the right to continue his higher studies since 2007 in the Moroccan universities.

9 June School (Refugee Camps), Feb 7, 2016 (SPS) President of the Republic, Secretary General of Frente Polisario, has considered the visit of the King of Morocco to the occupied territories of Western Sahara outdated provocative maneuver, indicating that "the phantom projects of King Mohamed VI cannot conceal the reality of its illegal occupation and its violations of human rights.

Madrid, Feb 6, 2016 (SPS) Non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) indicated in its annual report 2015 on freedom of expression, that Morocco continues to exert great pressure on Sahrawi journalists in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.

The report, published recently, notes that the Moroccan authorities continue to practice pressure on journalists who try to publish independently on events in Western Sahara.

Washington, February 6, 2016 (SPS) – On the sidelines of the annual breakfast celebration supervised by President Barack Obama, the United States Senate organized at its headquarters a dinner in honor of African personalities invited to breakfast in which members of the House of Representatives also participated.

Birlehlu (liberated territories), Feb 05, 2016 (SPS) The president of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente Polisario, Mohamed Abdelaziz, published Thursday, a presidential decree for the establishment of a national committee to oversee the political conferences for the election of the members of the National Council (Parliament).

Oslo(Norway) January 05, 16 (SPS) .- Dozens of young Norwegian students demonstrated in front of the Moroccan Embassy in Oslo, demanding the organization of a referendum on self-determination in Western Sahara and to complete the decolonization of the last colony in Africa.

The demonstration was an occasion for many Norwegian youth organizations to express their intention to join the international campaign that demands the holding of the referendum in Western Sahara.

Lima, Jan. 04, 2016 (SPS) - The President of the Peruvian Council of Support to Saharawi people, the journalist, M.Ricardo Sanchez Serra, has invited all countries to support the international campaign to organize referendum on self-determinationin Western Sahara before the end of 2017.

 "We need to provide support to the campaign" ReferendumNow in Western Sahara ". The countries that are considered as free states, democratic and good will, should support this noble cause," Mr. Sanchez Serra indicated.

Brussels (Belgium), February 04,2016 (SPS)  - Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) called out, Wednesday, the European Commission on the humanitarian situation of Sahrawi refugees in Tindouf camps, urging the executive of the Union to “urgently” increase its aid to meet the basic needs of these refugees.

The MEPs launched an urgent call to the European Union (EU) to grant emergency funds to Sahrawi refugees in Tindouf camps in order to respond to the flooding crisis that hit these camps in October 2015.