April 2016

New York, April 13, 2016 (SPS) - the UN Security Council on Wednesday will examine in a closed meeting the recent developments concerning the question of Western Sahara, at the request of Venezuela.
 
The meeting comes at a time of waiting the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon to submit his report on the conflict in Western Sahara before the issuance of a new resolution on 28 April on the conflict in Western Sahara.SPS
 
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Madrid, April 13, 2016 (SPS)- Spanish party Ciudadanos (citizens) called on the government of his country to "support all political initiatives for a just and lasting solution to the conflict in Western Sahara through a referendum on self-determination."

Bern (Switzerland), 12 April 2016 (SPS) -A vast program of cultural and historical activities will take place during the solidarity week with the Sahrawi people, held in Bern by the Swiss committee for support to Sahrawi people (SUKS).

Copenhagen (Denmark) 12 April 2016 (SPS)– The member of Danish Parliament, Mr. Christian Juhl from the Red-Green Alliance Party through the Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee has raised 12 questions to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Kristian Jensen related to the latest developments in occupied Western Sahara.
 

Madrid (Spain), April 12, 2016 (SPS) – the Spanish Party Ciudadanos has called the Spanish State to shoulder the historic responsibility towards the Saharawi people, urging it to work hard at the level of the European Union and other international forums to put an end to the conflict and the decolonization of Western Sahara.
 
 

National Police School (Saharawi refugee camps), April 12, 2016 (SPS) -The Minister of Interior, Mr. Hamma Salam, oversaw Monday , with the General Director of the National Police, Mr. Mahmud Abdi, the closing of a training course for the Regional Police Directorate of the Wilaya of Smara.
Said training course is part of the training plan of the Interior Ministry aiming at develop the capacities of members of the police in the different fields of their function as well as increasing the level of professionalism of the agents on the ground.

Moscow (Russia) April 12, 2016 (SPS) - Saharawi coordinator with MINURSO, member of the National Secretariat Mr. M'hamed Khadad was received  Monday by  the head of Centre for Islamic and Arabic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Mr. Vasily Kuznetsov accompanied by the Deputy Mr. Nicolai Sukov .
 

Las Palmas (Canaria, Spain), April 12, 2016 (SPS) - Spain Youth Council called on its government to recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), assuming it the responsibility of decolonization in Western Sahara, during the conference session in the city of Las Palmas, Canary Islands.
 
 

By Elita Chikwati
April 11, 2016
ZIMBABWE has pledged to support the people of Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic in the fight against its imperial occupier, Morocco, a senior Government official has said. Briefing journalists after a meeting with the outgoing Saharawi ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mohamed Cheij Saleh, at his Munhumutapa Offices in Harare on Friday, Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Christopher Mushohwe said Zimbabwe had always been behind the people of Saharawi since independence.

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Algiers, 10 April 2016 (SPS) - Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal on Sunday in Algiers reiterated Algeria support to "just and lasting settlement of Western Sahara conflict, based on a political mutually acceptable solution to allow Sahrawi people self-determination."

Washington, 10 April 2016 (SPS) - Members of the American Senate called, on Saturday, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, to intervene on the danger posed by the dismantling of the United Nations Mission for the referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to peacekeeping in the occupied Sahrawi territories, Polisario Front representatives in Washington told APS.
In a letter addressed to the UN Secretary General, influential American senators, including Republican James Inhofe, warned against Morocco’s attempts to dismantle the MINURSO.

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), 10 April 2016 (SPS) - African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPCS) called for "activating" the Committee of the Wise on Western Sahara, made up of African leaders, to speed up decolonization process in the territory.
At a meeting Wednesday on Western Sahara, AU Council of Peace and Security has called for the "activation" of Africa's Committee of the Wise on Western Sahara in order to undertake consultations with the concerned parties and reach, as soon as possible, a solution to the Saharawi issue."

Addis Ababa, 10 April 2016 (SPS) - The African Union's (AU) Council of Peace and Security (CPS) stated that Moroccan authorities' decision to expel the staff of the United Nations Mission for Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) from the occupied territories "threatens regional security," calling the UN Security Council "to fully assume its responsibility."

Shaheed El Hafed, April 9, 2016 (SPS) - The government examined Thursday the latest developments related to the question of Western Sahara, nationally and internationally, in a meeting held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister, M .Abdelkader Taleb Omar.
 
The meeting reviewed several issues, including the emergency plan adopted by the permanent office of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front during its last meeting.

Oslo, 9 April 2016 (SPS) In joint Statement by the five Nordic United Nations Associations (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) has urged for an expansion of the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
In April, a renewal of the mandate is to be discussed in the United Nations Security Council.

Addis Ababa, 9 April 2016 (SPS) - The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU), at its 588th meeting held on 6 April 2016, adopted a decision on the situation in Western Sahara, which calls on the UN Security Council to fully assume its responsibility in the matter, by acting under Chapter VII, to demand Morocco to annul its decision to expel MINURSO personnel.

Madrid (Spain), 9 April 2016 (SPS) - The General Council of the Spanish Lawyers Association has protested against arrest and expulsion, by Moroccan authorities on Thursday, of eight international human rights observers, including five Spaniards.
The association, in a statement, has called on Moroccan government to allow "human rights observers to fulfill their mission and to ensure prisoners' right to a fair trial."
It noted that those lawyers went to Morocco to enquire about the legal situation of 13 convicts from the Gdeim Izik group.

Daily News/Tanzania
08 April 2016
Makwaia Wa Kuhenga
WHEN we reflect on liberation struggles against colonialism in Africa, we see that colonial powers have never been inside Africa, but have come outside the continent. In East Africa, an erstwhile colonial power was Britain as much as France was in West Africa.

Algiers, 8 April 2016 (SPS) - General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA) Called Friday on the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) to urge the United Nations to implement its resolutions relating to Western Sahara issue and maintain the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), by extending its mandate to human right monitoring.