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European Commission's persistence to seal trade deal with Morocco, crime against AU member state

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Brussels, February 2, 2018 (SPS) - Polisario Front National Secretariat member and Minister Delegate to Europe Mohamed Sidati said the "vicious campaign" conducted by the European Commission to gain approval for the free trade agreement with the Moroccan occupier, illegally including occupied Western Sahara, was nothing more than a "support for a crime of plunder and a hold-up in the fullest sense of the word," against an African Union member state.

UNSC expresses his support to the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara (Press Statement)

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New York, Jan 31, 2019 (SPS) – the Security Council of United Nation expressed their full support for the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara, former President Horst Köhler of Germany in press statement was issued today by Council President José Singer Weisinger (Dominican Republic)
“The members of the Security Council expressed their full support for the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara, former President Horst Köhler of Germany.” , stresses the UNSC statement

Western Sahara: Kohler to launch new series of consultation in February

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New York, Jan 30, 2019 (SPS)- UN Envoy for Western Sahara Horst Kohler will launch new series of consultation with the parties to the conflict and the neighbouring countries, in preparation of the second round of talks planned to take place next March to definitively put the peace process back on track.

President Brahim Gali undertakes national tour to all wilayas

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Smara (Saharawi Refugee camps), January 29, 2019 (SPS) - the President of the Republic, Brahim Gali, undertook a visit to  the wilaya of Smara to review the progress of work in the institutions at regional and local level, in the framework of his tour to the wilayas of the Republic

The physical disappearance of Murad Medelci is a loss for the African constitutional institutions "(president of the Sahrawi Constitutional Council)

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Chahid El Hafed (Saharawi Refugee Camps), Jan 29, 2019 (SPS) - The president of the Sahrawi Constitutional Council, Mohamed Buzeid, affirmed that the departure of Mourad Medelci, president of the Algerian Constitutional Council, is a loss for African institutions and constitutional courts.
Mohamed Buzeid in a message of condolences to Mr. Moussa Al-Arabi, Secretary General of the Congress of African Constitutional Institutions, said that the physical disappearance of Mourad Medelci is a great loss for the constitutional institutions of Africa.

Sahrawi community in Tenerife organizes solidarity platform with repatriated Sahrawi activist

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Tenerife (Canary Islands) January 27, 2018 (SPS) - The Sahrawi community in Tenerife organized, on Saturday at the headquarters of the Canarian Association of Solidarity with the Sahrawi people, a solidarity platform with Sahrawi student and activist Hussein Ould Bashir Ould Brahim who was forcibly repatriated by the Spanish authorities to Morocco.

LPPS congratulates Saharawi people on release of first group of student prisoners

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El-Aaiun (Occupied Territories), January 27, 2019 (SPS) - The Association of Protection of Sahrawi Prisoners in Moroccan Prisons (LPPS) has congratulated the Sahrawi people and Sahrawi political prisoners on the release of the first group of Sahrawi students from Moroccan prisons, in a message.
The first group of Sahrawi students who were released on January 25, included Omar Laagni, Salek Babeir, Nasser Amenkour, Wafi Wakari, Brahim Musayeh, Hamza Rami, Ali Sharki, Mohamed Rgeibi, Ahmed Baali, and Mustafa Bouregaa.

Saharawi Community in Lanzarote protests against repatriation of Sahrawi young activist

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Lanzarote (Spain), January 26, 2019 (SPS) - The Saharawi Community in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, organized a demonstration in front of the Sub-Commission of the Spanish government to protest the repatriation of Sahrawi young activist Hussein Ould Bashir upon his arrival on the island and handing him over by the Spanish authorities to the Moroccan police, which was pursuing him to arrest him on the background of his position in support of self-determination and independence of the Saharawi people.

Ministry of Occupied Territories denounces Moroccan violations of Sahrawi rights, Spanish complicity (Communiqué)

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Shaheed Alhafed, January 26, 2019 (SPS) - The Ministry of occupied territories and Communities has condemned in the strongest terms the violations carried out by Morocco against the rights of the Sahrawis in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, southern Morocco and Sahrawi political detainees in Moroccan prisons.
In a communiqué, it also condemned the Spanish government's complicity with the Moroccan occupation, the last of which was the handover of militant Hussein Ould Bashir Ould Brahim to the Moroccan authorities.

President Brahim Gali offers his condolences to his Mexican counterpart following the tragedy of an oil pipeline explosion in Hidalgo

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Bir-lehlu (Liberated Territories), Jan 24, 2019 (SPS) - Through a letter addressed, the President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO, Brahim Ghali, has extended his condolences to his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the people of Mexico for the tragedy caused by the explosion of an oil pipeline in Hidalgo in Mexico.

OOTT and Abroad Communities Ministry slams Moroccan authorities repression against Sahrawi masses in the occupied parts of Western Sahara

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Chahid El Hafed, Jan 24,  2019 (SPS) - The Ministry of the Occupied Territories and Abroad Communities has strongly criticized  of the Moroccan authorities' repression and harassment against the Sahrawi people  the occupied parts of Western Sahara, in communiqué issued by it  on the horizon of theThe King of Spain's upcoming visit to Morocco, a copy of which obtained by SPS

President, Brahim Gali offers condolences to his South African counterpart following the death of Ambassador Dumisani Khumalo

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Bir Lehlou, Jan 22 2019 (SPS) – President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Brahim Gali, has sent a condolence message to his South African  counterpart, President of the Republic of South Africa , H.E. Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, following  the death of Ambassador Dumisani Khumalo who died on Sunday at the age of 71.
“It was with overwhelming sadness and deep sorrow that we learnt about the death of Ambassador Dumisani Khumalo who died on Sunday at the age of 71.” President of the Republic says in his condolence message

Aminetu Haidar says reprisals against a delegation of Saharawi activists clearly illustrate the human rights situation in Occupied Western Sahara

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El Aaiún (Occupied capital of Western Sahara), Jan 21, 2019 (SPS) - The president of the Saharawi Collective of Human Rights (CODESA), Ms. Aminetu Haidar has assured to SPS exclusively that reprisals against a delegation of Sahrawi activists clearly illustrate the human rights situation in the Occupied Areas of Western Sahara

Morocco-EU Agreement: Polisario Front to again refer to European court

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Shaheed Alhafed, January 21, 2019 (SPS) – The Polisario Front has decided to again take the controversial EU-Morocco trade agreement including the Sahrawi territories before the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
Last Wednesday, the agreement has been adopted by the European parliament. The battle for the preservation of the Sahrawi natural resources will constitute a decisive factor of pressure on the Moroccan occupying power.

Polisario Front draws attention of UN Security Council to consequences of European-Moroccan agreement

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New York (United Nations), January 20, 2019 (SPS) - Following a vote by the European Parliament on the amended agricultural agreement between the European Union and Morocco, Representative of the Polisario Front to the United Nations, Dr. Sidi Mohamed Ammar, has sent a letter to Ambassador José Singer Weisinger, Special Envoy of the Dominican Republic to the Security Council, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the Council for this month.

HRW severely criticizes Morocco

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Washington, January 19, 2019 (SPS) - The non-governmental organization (NGOs) Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounced Thursday the banning by Morocco of rallies in favor of self-determination as well as the obstruction imposed on the work of the NGOs in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
“The Moroccan authorities have systematically prevented rallies in favor of self-determination and obstructed the work of some local human rights NGOs,” said HRW in its 2019 report on the human rights’ situation in the world, presented Thursday in Berlin.