Algiers, March 15, 2016 (SPS) - Secretary General of the United Nations Ban ki-moon, who is determined to launch direct negotiations between the Polisario Front and Morocco to resolve the Sahrawi issue, denounced Rabat's "disrespectful attacks" on him whereas the Sahrawi people dub Morocco's attitude "sign of panic."
Chahid El Hafed(Saharawi refugee camps), March 15, 2016 (SPS) - the great friend and militant of Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia al-Hamra and Rio de Oro Frente Polisario , Ahmed Baba Miska died yesterday after a long struggle with the disease in the French capital, Paris.
Mr. Miska was one of the first political figures who have accompanied the Saharawi people in their struggle for independence both nationally and internationally.
Abuja(Nigeria), March 15, 2016 (SPS) -The Constitutional Congress of the Nigerian Movement for the Liberation of Western Sahara expressed "its solidarity with the Saharawi political prisoners Gdeim Izik Group that are in an open hunger strike hence the first of March".
Brussels, March 15, 2016 (SPS) - President of the Conference for Support and Solidarity with Sahrawi People (EUCOCO) Pierre Galand urged Tuesday in Brussels the international community to show further "coherence" regarding the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination.
Addis Ababa, March 15, 2016 (SPS) - The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, welcomes the visit of the United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, to Western Sahara and the region, undertaken from 3 to 7 March 2016.
Madrid (Spain), March 12, 2016 (SPA) - Thousands of people from various Spanish cities organize Saturday in Madrid, Spanish, a rally in support of Saharawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik who have been on unlimited hunger strike since the first of March.
In a statement issued on the occasion, the signatories demanded the immediate release of the group, condemning the sentences issued against them and all political trials against the Sahrawi population by the Moroccan authorities of occupation.
Shahid Al-Hafid, March 12, 2016 (SPS) - The Sahrawi government and the Polisario Front has expressed strong condemnation of a visit by a Saudi delegation to the occupied Sahrawi territories to examine ways to invest there, although Western Sahara is a region of international conflict under decolonization process by the United Nations.
Abuja (Nigeria) March 12, 2016 (SPS) - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari renewed Friday Nigeria's unconditional and unwavering support to the struggle of the Saharawi people for self-determination and independence, during a reception to the envoy of the Saharawi President, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Salem Ould Salek.
Rome (Italy), 11 March 2016 (SPS) - Italian Parliament Intergroup for Friendship with Western Sahara People said it is "on the same wavelength" as Algeria, wishing a quick solution to Saharawi, and which, it stressed, is incumbent on the United Nations.
"The Parliament Intergroup that I chair is on the same wavelength as Algeria, which is a neighbour of the two parties to the conflict, in supporting a solution based on self-determination of Western Sahara people," Stefano Vaccari has stressed.
Madrid, 11 March 2016 (SPS) - Morocco is under international isolation and its positions are contrary to international legality and peoples' rights to self-determination, the representative of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) to Spain, Khira Bulahi, said Thursday.
Morocco is in an unenviable situation, the Saharawi official told APS in response to Moroccan government's latest statements regarding United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Brussels, 11 March 2016 (SPS) - Saharawi Minister Delegate for Europe Mohamed Sidati said Thursday in Brussels that Morocco's attack on the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is a sign of panic from Rabat, which has taken every action possible, over the past years, to undermine UN efforts to settle Western Sahara issue.
Morocco's accusations against the UN chief clearly show the "nervousness of Moroccan authorities which has resorted, once again, to pressure and blackmail," Sidati told APS.
Washington,March 10, 2016 (SPS) - The United Nations affirmed Thursday that Western Sahara final status will be determined through self-determination referendum, rejecting Morocco's misleading claims about the Sahrawi occupied territories.
Algiers, March 10, 2016 (SPS) - Saharawi Coordinator to Minurso, Mohammed Kheddad, said Wednesday in Algiers that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's latest trip to the region has shown "what the international community has been proclaiming for years."
Kheddad stressed that "Western Sahara conflict is a decolonization issue and Morocco's alleged sovereignty over this territory has been rejected through all the resolutions issued by the international legality."
Algiers, 7 March 2016 (SPS) - The United Nations seeks to find a "political, just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution" based on the "self-determination" of the Sahrawi people, said Sunday in Algiers the UN chief, Ban Ki-moon.
Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), 6 March 2016 (SPS) - The Polisario Front representative to the United Nations Ahmed Boukhari said that the visit of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to the liberated territories of Western Sahara and the refugee camps will bring the Security Council to reconsider the Sahrawi question, noting that "the future strategic vision will support this cause."
Brussels, March 09, 2016 (SPS) - European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini reaffirmed the right of Sahrawi people to decide their future, adding that Western Sahara is a non-self-governing territory eligible for self-determination.
Madrid, March 09, 2016 (SPS) - Spain's capital, Madrid, will host a meeting on Saturday under the theme "Sahrawi women, 40 years of struggle for independence and freedom," announced Wednesday the delegation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Madrid.
Shahid El Hafed (Refugee Camps), 6 March 2016 (SPS) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon said Saturday in Shahid El Hafed in the Sahrawi refugee camps that it is necessary to find solution that allows the Sahrawi people to exercise its right to self-determination.
Shahid El-Hafed (Refugee Camps), 6 March 2016 (SPS) - United National Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Saturday in Shahid El-Hafed that his visit to the Saharawi refugee camps was an opportunity to see with his own eyes a tragedy forgotten by the international community.
Shahid El Hafed (Refugee Camps), 6 March 2016 (SPS) - The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon held Saturday, in Shahid el Hafed, talks with the President of the Saharwi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) Mohamed Abdelaziz, also Secretary General of the Polisario Front, legitimate representative of the Sahrawi people, fighting against the Moroccan occupier for their independence. The talks to which also took part the officials of the Polisario Front took place at the headquarters of SADR’s presidency.