August 2016

Gulemim (southern Morocco), August 04, 2016 (SPS) - The union martyr Brahim Saika, died under torture and mistreatment by Moroccan repressive authorities, The syndicalistic has been buried this morning in the city of Guelmim (South Morocco) , against the will and consent of his family, according to a source at the ministry of Occupied Territories and the Community Abroad.
Saika has been buried without any autopsy without the prosecution of perpetrators indicated the same source. SPS
 
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Washington (United States), August 04, 2016 (SPS) - UN chief's special envoy for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, may resume his diplomatic shuttle trips in the region in August, in a bid to reinvigorate the negotiation process between the Polisario Front and Morocco, interrupted in 2012, a UN source said Wednesday.SPS
 
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Rome (Italy), August 04, 2016 (SPS) - The Minister of Youth and Sport Mr. Ahmed Lahbib Abdi held yesterday several meetings in Italy, as part of his tour, the latter aims to strengthen and activate several projects which will support youth and sport programs in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps.

Auserd (refugee camps), August 03, 2016 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Brahim Gali on Wednesday  morning oversaw a ceremony to honour the Saharawi students who earned the baccalaureate degree this year, in the presence of the Governor of Auserd  , minister of education, and other members of the government and Polisario Front's National Secretariat.

President Brahim Gali handed over recognition certificates and symbolic awards to the first 16 students in the list.

Windhoek (Namibia), August 02, 2016 (SPS) -  South-African women's groups PAWO-SARO have called, in a petition to the secretary-general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, for a an end to the illegal occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco and human rights violations perpetrated by Moroccan occupation forces.
The petition signatories demand that referendum on Western Sahara people's self-determination be held in February 2017, to allow Saharawis to decide freely on their own fate.

Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), August 1, 2016 (SPS) - President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) Brahim Ghali said Sunday that the Saharawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik" are leading today the peaceful resistance in occupied Western Sahara territories and in the south of Morocco."

Windhoek, 31 JUL (SPS) – Human rights violation committed against the Saharawi people, illegal and shameful exploitation of natural resources by members of the European Union (EU) and Morocco's unlawful occupancy over Western Sahara must come to an immediate end.
On Friday, the Pan-African Women’s Organisation Southern African Regional Office (Pawo-Saro) led a demonstration of about 50 people to the offices of the United Nations (UN) here to hand over a petition to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.

Shaheed El Hafed, August 01, 2016 (SPS) The Office of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front denounced Sunday Morocco's defiance of international legitimacy and Security Council resolutions, in a statement following a meeting chaired by Brahim Ghali, President of the Republic and Secretary-General of the Polisario Front.