Bir Lahlou (Saharawi Liberated Territories), January 18, 2017 (SPS) - Polisario Front will officially lodge a complaint with the European and French authorities, denouncing the illegal shipment of marine oil by a European tanker, Key Bay, from occupied Western Sahara's town al Aaiun, the Front said Tuesday in a statement.
Rome, January 17 2017 (SPS) - Italian parliamentarians on Monday questioned their government on the situation in Western Sahara, occupied by Morocco, calling on it "to take all useful international initiatives" with a view to ensuring a solution respecting the right of self-determination of the Saharawi people and ensures peace and security in the Maghreb and in the Sahel region.
Madrid, 17 January 2017 (SPS) - The Spanish Coordination of Associations Supporting Sahrawi People (CEAS-Sahara), will stage a protest in Madrid, Spain, on 23 January to urge Moroccan authorities to release the Sahrawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik group.
Paris,17 January 2017 (SPS) - The Task Force of the European Coordination Conference for Solidarity with the Sahrawi People (EUCOCO) welcomed the decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) which "clearly" stated that Western Sahara, a non-autonomous territory, was occupied by its neighbor Morocco, demanding its application by the European Union countries.
El-Aaiun (Occupied Territories), January 16, 2017 (SPS) – Moroccan prison administration of “Black Jail” in the occupied city of El-Aaiun isolated Saturday Saharawi political prisoners Ali Saadouni, Khalihenna Fek and Nourdin Arkubi, who were on hunger striker, at solitary confinement and destroyed their possessions.
Tantan (southern Morocco), January 15, 2017 (SPS) – A Moroccan Court has issued unfair sentence in absentia against human rights activist and former Sahrawi political prisoner Hammadi Nassiri for six months and a fine of 500 dirhams, according the Ministry of the Occupied Territories and Community Abroad.
The Sahrawi human rights activist had been subjected to verbal abuse, provocations and harassment during his return from Agadir by police checkpoint in the northern town of Tantan.
Tokyo, 11 January 2017 (SPS) - Sahara Japan Journalist Association (SJJA) started the lecture tour in Japan about the Last Colony in Africa, to explain the 41 years’ hard situation of the Western Sahara people for the university students, the scholars and the ordinary Japanese people, even for the children.
Madrid, 14 Jan 2017 (SPS) - Spanish Inter-Union Confederation has called for the immediate annulment of the sentences pronounced by the Moroccan military court against the political prisoners of the Gdeim Izik Group, in a statement published on its website.
Responding to an international appeal launched by UGTSARIO, lawyers of the Spanish Confederation expressed their support to the group of more than 40 lawyers from different countries who defended Saharawi political prisoners.
Managua (Nicaragua), January 14, 2017 (SPS) - Nicaragua's President-elect, Daniel Ortega, reiterated the unconditional support and solidarity of the Nicaraguan government for the just Saharawi cause, during his meeting with President of the Saharawi National Council, Khatri Addouh.
President Daniel Ortega stressed that "the Saharawi people have endured a long time as it struggles to complete its national sovereignty and get their civil and economic rights."
Madrid, Jan 13, 2017 (SPS) - The senator of the Spanish province El Hierro, Pablo Rodriguez, called the Spanish government to “get more involved” in the struggle for the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination while respecting the United Nations’ resolutions relating to the organization of a referendum in Western Sahara.
In a motion, the senator called for “a more active attitude” from the Spanish authorities, while expressing his support to “the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination,” said EFE agency.
Luanda (Angola) January 13, 2017 (SPS) - Angolan Minister of War Veterans, Mr. Candido Pereira dos Santos, has reiterated his country's firm support to the just struggle of the Saharawi people.
The Angolan official reaffirmed, on the sidelines of a meeting Friday with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Angola, Bah Sheikh, the unwavering position of his country in support of the Saharawi people's struggle for self-determination and independence.
Lusaka, Jan 13, 2017 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, concluded Wednesday a two-day working visit to the Republic of Zambia.
The President of the Republic and his accompanying delegation were greeted upon departure, at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport, by Zambian Foreign Minister Harry Kalaba and members of the government.
During his visit, President Ghali met with his Zambian counterpart, Edgar Lungu, who offered him a dinner banquet in his honor.
Martyr Hadad Military Base, January 12, 2017 (SPS) - the Minister of Defence, member of the National Secretariat of Frente POLSARIO, Mr. Abdlahi Lahbib has oversaw today at Martyr Hadad Military Base, the graduation of new batch of the Saharawi People's Liberation Army.
The ceremony of graduation, which bears the name of the martyr Abeibo Jalihnna Mohamad, was attended along with the Minister of Defense by the General Staff of the People's Army and the Staff of the said base.
Algiers (Algeria), January 12, 2017 (SPS) - The decision of the European Union Court of Justice, whose verdict, issued on 21 December, indicates that the association and liberalization agreements between the EU and Morocco are not applicable to Western Sahara, is pressure to the Union and its members, a senior European diplomat in Brussels said, according to the Algerian daily El Moujahid.
Chahid El Hafed (Saharawi Refugee Camps), January 11, 2017 (SPS) - The Saharawi coordinator with the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), Mr. M'hamed Khadad, stated that the Moroccan expansionist policy is a tragedy that threatened the entire region and prevented the integration and cooperation of the peoples of the Arab Maghreb.
Managua, Nicaragua, January 11, 2017 (SPS) - The Speaker of the Saharawi National Council (SNC), Mr. Jatri Adouh delivered Tuesday a congratulatory message written by the President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali to President of Nicaragua, Mr. Daniel Ortega, expressing his sincere wishes for success and progress for the Nicaraguan people, as well as for strengthening ties of friendship and solidarity between the two governments.
Managua, Nicaragua, January 10, 2017 (SPS) - The Speaker of the Saharawi National Council, Jatri Aduh, attended today the inauguration ceremony of Nicaragua's re-elected president Daniel Ortega.
Jatri Adduh, representing President Brahim Gali, congratulated the Sandinista Government chaired by Commander Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo, for assuming a new presidential term.
Lusaka, January 10, 2017 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali today morning has held private talks with his Zambian counterpart Mr. Edgar Lungu at the start of the working visit, which leads the President of the Republic and his accompanying delegation to Zambia, following similar visit to South Africa.
Lusaka, January 10, 2017 (SPS) - the President of the Republic of Zambia, Mr. Edgar Lungu has organized yesterday banquet dinner in honor of President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali and his accompanying delegation in the presence of former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and Foreign Minister Harry Kalaba and members of government and other high Zambian officials.
Brussels, January 10, 2017 (SPS) - The members of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs called Monday, in Brussels, for the respect of the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) through the implementation of this judicial decision in which it concluded that the agreements of association and liberalisation between EU and Morocco are not applicable to Western Sahara.