Paris, April 16,2016 (SPS) - France has a “key role” to play in the resolution of the conflict in Western Sahara, said Monday a French deputy from the socialist parliamentary group (Meurthe-et-Moselle), underlining that there “is no alternative to the total respect to the United Nations resolution 1514.”
Djanet (Algeria), April 18, 2016 (SPS) - Participants in the regional conference on Western Sahara unanimously urged Sunday in Djanet (province of Illizi) the UN Security Council to assume its responsibilities for the preservation of stability, favour the self-determination referendum and force Morocco to respect decisions of international legality.
Djanet (Algeria), April 18, 2016 (SPS) - The head of the delegation of the Algerian National Committee for Solidarity with Saharawi People in Djanet (province of Illizi), Boudjemaa Souileh, urged Sunday the UN Security Council to get serious about Western Sahara issue, stressing that it is first and foremost a matter of "peace and security in the region."
Djanet (Algeria)- A regional conference on Western Sahara conflict will open Sunday in Djanet (Illizi, 1850-km southeast of Algiers) to address the security and political challenges related to the conflict and means to strengthen the internal front against these challenges.
New York, April 16, 2016 (SPS) - On April 18, 2016, Cornell Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic (New York, USA) will spotlight the fight for self-determination in Western Sahara—often referred to as Africa’s last colony, on Monday, April 18, 2016, at 1:25 – 2:25 Eastern Standard Time, at Cornell Law School, Myron Taylor Hall, Room 277, the organizers have indicated in a statement.
Paris, April 16, 2016 (SPS) - Many Sahrawi nationals held Saturday in Paris a sit-in in Trocadero (Paris) near Morocco’s embassy in France to denounce “oppression” exerted by Moroccan authorities on the Sahrawi people since 40 years.
Raising the flag of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), demonstrators chanted “No alternative to self-determination,” while denouncing the “oppression” exerted by Moroccan authorities against the Sahrawi people “in complicity” with France.
Madrid (Spain), April 16, 2016 (SPS) - Hundreds of Spaniards representing organizations and political parties backing Saharawi people expressed Saturday, in Madrid, their "unfailing support" to the Saharawis, who have been struggling against Moroccan occupation, for more than 40 years, to "recover independence and their basic rights in line with the international legality."
Djanet (Algeria), April 16, 2016 (SPS) - A regional conference on “developments of the Sahrawi cause” will be held Sunday in Djanet (Ilizi), Algeria, by the National Algerian Committee of solidarity with Western Sahara” to “assess the latest developments of this issue and security challenges resulting from these developments,” according to organizers.
Shaheed El Hafed, April 16, 2016 (SPS) – The Ministry of Occupied Territories and Community Abroad sent Saturday a message of condolences to the family of Shaheed Ibrahim Sikka who died Friday in the Moroccan city of Agadir as a result of torture by the Moroccan security forces.
The Ministry presented the condolences to the family on behalf of the Sahrawi government and people, considering their son as a hero who was a symbol for courage and defiance against Moroccan occupation.
Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), April 16, 2016 (SPS)- President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, urged the United Nations to take “concrete measures” regarding the “dangerous developments” in Western Sahara to enable the Sahrawi people to exercise their right to self-determination on the basis of a “fair and democratic” solution.
Agadir (Morocco), April 15, 2016 (SPS) – the Sahrawi prisoners Brahim Sikka died on Friday in Agadir, after his health deteriorated due to torture inflicted upon him by Moroccan jails’adminstration , reported source from the Ministry of the Occupied Territories and Communities Abraod .
Lusaka (Zambia), April 15, 2016 (SPS) – the Secretary General of the Sahrawi Women Union, Ms. Fatima Mahdi, participated today in the works of an extraordinary session of the Standing Committee of Economic, Social and Cultural Council "ECOSOC" in the capital of Zambia to Lusaka.
Madrid (Spain) April 15, 2016 (SPS) - the parliamentary group "Peace for the Saharawi people" in the Spanish Parliamant requested on Thursday the Spanish government to assumes its responsibility for "the settlement of the conflict in Western Sahara by working to organize" free and democratic referendum on self-determination which expresses the will of the Saharawi people. "
Geneva (Switzerland), April 15, 2016 (SPS) - Minister of Foreign Affairs and member of the National Secretariat, Mr.Mohamed Salem Ould Salek called Thursday the United Nations Security Council to set a specific date for the referendum in Western Sahara and to ensure that MINURSO exercise its full competences and all its political, civil, administrative and military components.
Geneva (Switzerland), April 14, 2016 (SPS) - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, SADR, Mr. Mohamed Salem Ould Salek said today, during a press conference on Extension of the Mandate of the MINURSO by The Security Council, that the two main missions of (MINURSO): monitor the ceasefire between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front and organize the referendum for Sahrawi people in accordance with the UN Charter and the General Assembly resolutions.
Bir Lahlou (liberated territories) April 14, 2016 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, on Thursday sent letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban ki-moon concerning the serious developments that are still facing the UN efforts in Western Sahara question.
Paris, April 14, 2016 (SPS) -The mayor of Ivry-sur-Seine Philippe Bouyssou has questioned for the second time the French Foreign Affairs Ministry Jean-Marc Ayrault on the situation of Sahrawi political prisoners, calling him to make pressure on Moroccan authorities.
Washington (U.S.A), April 14, 2016 (SPS) - The use of torture and resort to arbitrary arrests by Moroccan authorities remain widespread in the occupied Sahrawi territories, denounced Wednesday the U.S. Department of State in its annual Report of Human Rights Practices in the World.
The document, devoted to Western Sahara, and which traces the violations of rights in the occupied territories in 2015, reports the proliferation of “inhuman and degrading treatment” on Sahrawi prisoners.
Moscow (Russia) April 14, 2016 (SPS) - Sahara Press Service (SPS) signed on Wednesday a twinning protocol with its Russian counterpart "Regnum" at the headquarters of the Russian news agency.
Geneva (Switzerland), April 14, 2016 (SPS) - Geneva, Switzerland, hosts today press conference on Western Sahara", said sources from Polisario Front representative in Switzerland.
According to the same sources, "the press conference will be held at the Club Swiss Press, in cooperation with the Federation of Associations for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights, entitled" Extension of the Mandate of MINURSO by the Security Council "with the moderate of Foreign Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Salek and human rights expert, Mr. Gianfranco Fattorini.