New York (UN), September 28, 2019 (SPS) - Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Lesotho, Mr. Tom Thabane, called for an end to the occupation and the declaration of independence for Western Sahara, the last colony in the African continent.
New York (United Nations), Sept 26, 2019 (SPS) - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres submitted a report to the General Assembly on the rights of peoples to self-determination, in which he informed the deliberative body of the UN organization of the progress of the Western Sahara issue.
London, September 25, 2019 (SPS) –Thousands of Labour Party members erupted into spontaneous applause and cheering for an independent Western Sahara at Labour Party Conference today.
Addressing the Conference, Jdeiya Mohammed Salem spoke of the brutal Moroccan occupation of her country Western Sahara. She also demanded the UK government use its role on the UN Security Council to set a date for a referendum on the independence of the territory, which is also Africa's last colony.
Speaking on the main platform, Jdeiya Mohammed Salem said:
Stockholm (Sweden) 25 September 2019 (SPS)- Saharawi human rights defender, Mrs. Aminatou Haidar, was announced as one of four winners of the prestigious Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”, during a press conference organised by the Award’s organisers at the international Press Centre at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Badajoz (Extremadura), Sept 24, 2019 (SPS) - the University of Extremadura hosted series of sensitization sessions to raise awareness on the heroic struggle of the Saharawi people in the different faculties of the University of Extremadura
The sessions of sensitization will be held from, September 23 and until October 8.they will be presented by The Saharawi delegate to the said region Hameiduha Emhamed .
Bir Lahlou, 23 September 2019 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, has sent a congratulatory message to President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, Mr. Jose Mario Vaz, on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the independence of his country.
Girona (Catalonia) September 21, 2019 (SPS) – The Catalan Liberepress Association awarded its annual prize to the just struggle of the Sahrawi people for freedom and independence, among the nine honorees this year in the fields of human rights, environment, media, music, art and society.
In the presence of a large audience, the representative of the Front in Spain, Kheira Bulahi, received the prize, who highlighted that the prize was a reward to the just struggle of the Sahrawi people.
Bir Lahlou, September 21, 2019 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, on Saturday sent a felicitation message to Prime Minister of the Republic of Belize, Mr. Dean Oliver Barrow, on the occasion of the 38th anniversary of his country's independence.
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
The struggle for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara has taken a new dimension as the proponents of self-rule said that they would henceforth adopt the method used in ending the inglorious apartheid regime in South Africa.
by African Digest
September 18, 2019
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress (TUC), the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and about 17 civil Society organizations have said they will picket Nigerian companies buying stolen phosphate, fertilizer and fishes from Morocco, claiming that the resources are stolen from the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) otherwise known as Western Sahara.
Tifariti (Liberated Sahrawi Territories); Sept 18; 2019 (SPS) - A Mauritanian citizen was injured Monday following the explosion of a Moroccan fragmentation bomb in an area close to the Moroccan wall, at about 90km from the Sahrawi region of Tifariti.
According to the Sahrawi Office of Mine Action Coordination SMACO, it is a Mauritanian citizen called Ali Yaslem, born in 1989, injured in the explosion of a Moroccan fragmentation bomb.
Cairo, Egypt, Sept 17, 2019 (SPS) - The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic took part in the work of the African Forum on Migration in the Egyptian capital Cairo from 14-16 September.
The African Forum, held this year under the slogan "Strengthening data and research on migration for the development and implementation of evidence-based policies for effective migration management in Africa", was attended by the Minister of the Interior, member of the National Secretariat, Mr. Mustafa Mohamed Ali Sidi El Bachir.
El Aaiún (occupied capital of Western Sahara), Sept 17, 2019 (SPS) -The Saharawi political prisoners of the Gdeim Izik Group have announced Monday that they will begin a simultaneous hunger strike in several Moroccan prisons in protest of their continued arbitrary detention.
The League for the protection of Sahrawi prisoners received a statement made by the civilian prisoners of the Gdeim Izik Group after having initiated a 48-hour hunger strike on the occasion of the second anniversary of their arbitrary deportation after receiving harsh sentences.
By: Malainin Lakhal
Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories) 16 September 2019 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Ghali, has sent a message of felicitation to his Nicaraguan counterpart, Mr. José Daniel Ortega Savedra, on the occasion of the 198th anniversary of his country's independence.
Harare (Zimbabwe) September 14, 2019 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, attended Saturday the funeral ceremony of the former President of Zimbabwe and African leader Robert Mugabe.
The funeral took place at the National Sports Stadium in the capital, Harare, in the presence of heads of state and foreign delegations from Africa and the world.
Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), September 13, 2019 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Brahim Ghali, addressed a letter to Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, President of the Security Council, H.E. Mr Vassily A. Nebenzia, on the situation in Western Sahara.
The following is the full text of the letter:
“H.E. Mr Vassily A. Nebenzia
Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations
Gaborone (Botswana) 13 September 2019 (SPS)- South African Development Community (SADC) Executive Secretariat, Dr. Stergomena Lawrence Tax, reaffirmed in a letter she addressed on Thursday to the Saharawi Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Mohamed Salem Uld Salek, SADC’s commitment to Saharawi people’s right to “self-determination and freedom”.
Geneva (Switzerland), Sept 12, 2019 (SPS) - Algeria's Permanent Mission to the Human Rights Council in Geneva has warned the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the serious escalation of human rights violations committed against Sahrawi civilians in the Non-Self-Governing Western Sahara territory.
The Moroccan regime policy against the Sahrawi civilian population in the occupied parts of Western Sahara illegally occupied by Morocco would have a serious consequence. The Algerian diplomat added in his intervention
School June 9, Sept 12 (SPS) - Following his appointment at the last meeting of the National Secretariat, the first meeting of the Preparatory Commission of the XV Congress of the Frente POLISARIO took place yesterday. In this first act the President of the Republic and General Secretary of the Frente POLISARIO, Brahim Gali, was present, accompanied by members of the Government and the National Secretariat.