Awsard (Refugee Camps), February 24, 2019 (SPS) - Many foreign delegations from different countries and continents of the world are participating in 8th Congress of the National Union of Sahrawi Women (NUSW), the Congress of Martyr Sidami Mokhtar, held on February 23-25, under the theme “Together we march towards victory and liberation,” in the wilaya of Awsard, Sahrawi refugee camps.
Awsard (Refugee Camps), February 23, 2019 (SPS) - The work of the 8th congress of the National Union of Saharawi Women (NUSW) began Saturday in the wilaya of Awsard, Saharawi refugee camps, which bears the name of Martyr Sidami Mokhtar Ahmed, under the theme “Together we march towards victory and liberation.”
New York - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres affirmed Thursday in New York that "the voice of the peoples of non-self-governing territories must be heard", reiterating their inalienable right to self-determination.
Occupied Aaiun, Feb 21, 2019 (SPS) - Moroccan occupation forces on Wednesday (February 20th, 2019) intervened violently against Sahrawi demonstrators in the occupied capital of Aaiun, leaving many casualties.
Immediately after the demonstration, the Moroccan occupation forces surrounded the demonstrators and prevented the other citizens from joining them before violently intervening to target the national flags held by the demonstrators.
Algiers- Feb 21, 2019 (SPS) - Ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) to Algeria Abdelkader Taleb Omar affirmed, Tuesday in Algiers, that the vote by the European Parliament on the new agreements with Morocco on trade and fishing faces " serious political repercussions in the region and impedes the political solution to Western Sahara’s conflict.
Chahid El Hafed , Feb 21, 2019 (SPS) - the Permanent Bureau of the National Secretariat praised Wednesday the support of the African Union for the Sahrawi cause, in statement concluded its meeting yesterday at the Presidency´s headquarter
The Permanent Bureau hailed the principle position of the African Union and its commitment to its Constitutive Act, recalling the permanent presence of the Saharawi question within the continental organization and at the highest levels.
Pretoria, Feb 20, 2019 (SPS) - The Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa, Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu announced on Tuesday before the diplomatic corps accredited in South Africa, the convocation of the conference of the Southern African Development Community (SADC, for its acronym in English) for solidarity and support to the Saharawi people on March 25 and 26 in Pretoria.
The Head of South African diplomacy said that this noble people deserve a lot of solidarity to achieve liberation and freedom and independence.
Chahid El Hafed (Saharawi Refugee Camps), February 19, 2019 (SPS) - 43 years have already passed over the Moroccan genocide of 1976 in UM-Dreiga and to this day this crime against humanity continues unpunished.
What happened on the morning of February 18, 1976 in the town of Um-dreiga (Western Sahara) has no other name. The bombing with napalm by Moroccan aviation to innocent children and women leaving a trail of death, terror and despair, is one of the black episodes in the history of our country.
Occupied Aaiun, Feb 19, 2019 (SPS) - the Moroccan occupation police in the occupied city of Aaiun has arrested a minor child, the student "Rageb Mohamed Rgeibi" on Sunday evening, near the street of Skeikima where they brought him to the police station and subjected him to severe beatings and psychological torture.
The arrest of the minor child " Rageb Mohamed Rgeibi " on the ground of his participation in a peaceful demonstration demanding the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and independence.
El Aaiun (Refugee Camps), February 17, 2019 (SPS) – Campaigns has been initiated for collecting the crops of the national farms in the wilayas and institutions of the Sahrawi Republic, with the aim of creating self-sufficiency for the population of the refugee camps.
In this regard, a harvest campaign was made on Saturday in the wilaya of El Aaiun, with the participation of President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, where considerable amount of vegetables and fruits were collected.
Bir Lehlu, February 16, 2019 (SPS) - Head of Sahrawi Petroleum and Mining Authority, Dr. Ghali Zubeir, on Saturday announced the signing of an agreement with Australian Resources Limited company, to explore for minerals in the liberated Sahrawi territories.
The agreement grants four licenses for mineral exploration covering an area of 8000 km2 in the southeast of the Sahrawi Republic, targeting discovery of iron, gold, uranium and other minerals.
Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), February 16, 2019 (SPS) - Sahrawi Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohmaed Ould Salek affirmed Thursday, in a statement to the media, that the 32nd African Union Summit has strengthened the achievements of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
In this respect, Ould Salek said that this summit had clearly shown that AU attaches a big interest to the conflict between Morocco and Western Sahara through its support to the efforts made by the United Nations’ envoy Horst Kohler for the decolonization of Western Sahara.
Strasbourg, February 16, 2019 (SPS) - The European Court reiterated in a ruling Tuesday, on the day of the European Parliament’s vote on the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement, illegally including the occupied Sahrawi territories, the inalienable right of the Sahrawi people to exercise their right to self-determination, calling on the European Union to comply with the rules of the international law linking the European Union (EU) to Morocco.
Madrid, Feb 14, 2019 (SPS) – the Spanish Workers Commissions (CCOO) regretted that the European Parliament ignores the verdict of the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding the illegal exploitation of Saharawi natural resources.
In this way, CCOO joins the movement of solidarity with the Saharawi people to ask for rectification of the effects of this shameful agreement that once again means a new attempt to broaden agreements that include products and other goods from Western Sahara.
Madrid, Feb 13, 2019 (SPS) - The delegate of the Frente POLISARIO in Spain, Jira Bulahi, regretted that the "European Union becomes an accomplice to the theft that the Moroccan occupier continue to perpetrate on the Saharawi people.
Bir Lehlu (SADR Liberated Territories), February 13, 2019 (SPS) -. The Saharawi Government and the POLISARIO Front have reminded the King of Spain and the Spanish Government that Spain continues to be the administering Power of the Territory of Western Sahara under international law unless the Spanish State succeeds in completing the decolonization of the territory allowing the Saharawi people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination.
Bir Lehlu (SADR Liberated Territories), Feb 12, 2019 (SPS) -The President of the Sahrawi National Council, Jatri ad-duh sent a message of condolences to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, S.E. Mr. Muhammadu Buhari, for the physical disappearance of the former president of the Pan-African Parliament, Bethel Nnaemeka Amadi.
Strasbourg, Feb 13, 2019 (SPS) -Dozens of protesters from the Saharawi community in France and Belgium gathered in front of the European Parliament building in the French city of Strasbourg.
The rally coincides with the European Parliament vote on the fisheries agreement between the EU and Morocco, which includes occupied Western Sahara in flagrant violation of international law and the decisions of the CJUE of 2016 and 2018.
Brussels, February 11, 2019 (SPS) - About 98 Sahrawi associations called on the Euro-deputies to vote against the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement, extended to the occupied Sahrawi territories, pointing out that this text aims to “plunder the natural resources of Western Sahara” and contributed to “the continuation of the Moroccan occupation.”
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) February 11, 2019 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the POLISARIO Front, Brahim Ghali, on Sunday held official talks with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
The talks centered on the United Nations-led peace process in Western Sahara in the context of the efforts of the UN Secretary-General and his Personal Envoy, Horst Koehler, to find a just and lasting solution to the conflict on the basis of international legitimacy.