September 2020

Stockholm (Sweden) 30 September 2020 (SPS)- The Right Livelihood Foundation strongly condemned Moroccan Media  campaign against Saharawi Organ against Moroccan occupation (ISACOM), in a press release issued Today by the Foundation and published on its website.
Following is the complete text reproduced by SPS:
"Morocco and Western Sahara: Stop the smear campaign and prosecution of Aminatou Haidar and Sahrawi activists

Occupied Aaiun, Sept 30, 2020 (SPS) - The Sahrawi Commission against Moroccan Occupation has warned, in a statement, Wednesday, against the physical targeting of its members by the Moroccan occupation authorities on Tuesday after Moroccan media and parties launched a chauvinist incitement campaign against the Commission since its inception on September 20 in the occupied city of Aaiun.

Bir Lehlou (Saharawi Republic) 29 September 2020 (SPS)- The President of the Saharawi Republic, H.E. Brahim Ghali, congratulated H.E. President Mokgweetsi E.K. Masisi, for the 54th Independence of the Republic of Botswana, in a letter he addressed him on the occasion on Monday 28 September.

Bir-Lehlou (Liberated Territories), 27 September 2020 (SPS) - The Polisario Front and the SADR government have alerted the international community, the United Nations and its mission for the organization of the referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), on the seriousness of the escalation led by the Moroccan occupation state, calling on the UN Security Council to take a clear and firm position in order to save international peace and security in the region.

El-Aaiun (Occupied Territories), 27 September  2020 (SPS) - Amnesty International has demanded, for the second time in less than a month, that the Moroccan occupation authorities immediately drop the "unjustified" charges against journalist Brahim Amrikli.

New York (United Nations) 25 September 2020 (SPS)- The Vice President of Zierra Leone, Mr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, reiterated his country’s commitment to UN efforts aimed at “total elimination of colonialism”, in his country’s speech before the UN General Assembly Today.
“Sierra Leone reiterates its commitment to multilateral efforts geared toward the total elimination of colonialism in all its forms and manifestation, and supports the adopted decade plan of action,” he stressed.

New York (United Nations) 25 September 2020 (SPS)- The President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, H.E. Mr. Francisco Gutteres Lu Olo, called on the UN to speed-up the process for the decolonization of Western Sahara, in his speech yesterday before the UN 75th General Assembly in New York.

New York (United Nations) 25 September 2020 (SPS)- The President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, H.E. Dr. Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, called on the UN Security Council “to increase efforts towards ending the occupation of Western Sahara”, in his speech before the UN General Assembly yesterday.
He further stressed that “self-determination and independence are intrinsic and fundamental rights that should be enjoyed by all without distinction.”

New York (United Nations) 24 September 2020 (SPS)– The President of Botswana, H.E. Mokgweetsi E.K. Masisi, stressed on the need to achieve “decolonisation and self-determination to all peoples”, in his speech before the High-Level Meeting of the UN General Assembly to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the UN, held last Monday.

New York (United Nations) 24 September 2020 (SPS)- The President of the Republic of Namibia, H.E. Dr. Hage Geingob, expressed his country’s continued support to the freedom of Western Sahara from Moroccan occupation, in his speech yesterday before the 75th UN General Assembly.
“The 17 interconnected Sustainable Development Goals and their promise to leave no one behind by 2030, ring hollow for the peoples of Palestine and Western Sahara, who still remain under occupation. They are left behind,” Dr. Geingob regretted.

Bir Lahlou, 24 Sept 2020 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali, has sent a congratulatory message to President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, H.E. Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embaló, on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the independence of his country.

Algeria, Sept 23, 2020 (SPS) - Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has called Wednesday, the United Nations to speed up the organization of a referendum of self-determination of the Sahrawi people.
Abdelmadjid Tebboune, during his address before the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, has expressed his regret at the obstacles the Western Sahara issue is facing, especially the halting of negotiations between the parties to the conflict and the delay in appointing a new UN envoy to Western Sahara.

New York (United Nations) 22 September 2020 (SPS)- The President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, called in his video speech before the 4th Plenary meeting of the UN general Assembly Today, “for an end to the illegal occupation of Western Sahara”.
“As we celebrate the founding of an organisation dedicated to freedom and equality, the people of Palestine and Western Sahara continue to live under occupation,” President Ramaphosa regretted.

El Aaiun (Saharawi Republic) 20 September 2020 (SPS)- The Constitutive Conference of the “Saharawi Organ Against the Moroccan Occupation” was held Today in the city of El Aaiun, the occupied capital of the Saharawi Republic, under the name "Conference of Martyr Mohamed Abdel Aziz", calling for a quick decolonisation of Western Sahara.

Bir Lehlou, 21 September 2020 (SPS) - President of Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, H. E. Mr. Brahim Ghali, has sent a congratulatory message to Prime Minister of Belize, H.E. Mr. Dean Barrow, on the occasion of the 39th anniversary of his country’s Independence Day.
“On behalf of the Government and people of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, I would like to extend to your Excellency our most sincere congratulations and best wishes as you celebrate the 39th anniversary of your Independence Day,” said the President of the Republic.

Managua (Nicaragua) September 19, 2020 (SPS) - The new ambassador of the Sahrawi Republic to Nicaragua, Mr. Wali Amer Ali-Salem, presented Friday his credentials to Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Nicaragua, Mr. Denis Moncada, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 
On this occasion, the head of the Nicaraguan diplomacy affirmed that Nicaragua and the Sahrawi Republic have very strong fraternal historical ties, stressing the right of the Sahrawi people for self-determination and independence.

Geneva, Sept, 17 2020 (SPS) -The participants in a videoconference, held Tuesday in Geneva by the Support Group to Western Sahara, urged the United Nations (UN) to accelerate the holding of a self-determination referendum on occupied Western Sahara.    

Geneva (Human Rights Council) 16 September 2020 (SPS)- American Association of Jurists’ Representative in Geneva, Mr. Gianfranco Fattorini, called on the UN Human Rights Council, on behalf of a group of 240 organisation, “to implement a programme of technical cooperation and capacity building with the legal representative of the people of Western Sahara, the Polisario Front.”

Geneva (Human Rights Council) 16 September 2020 (SPS)- The Right Livelihood Foundation called last Monday in an Oral Statement during the 45th Session of the Human Rights Council, for the appointment of a Special Rapporteur on Western Sahara for the UN to be able to monitor the human rights situation in this last colony in Africa.

Brazil, Sept 16, 2020 (SPS) - The Brazilian Association of Solidarity with the Sahrawi people has expressed its full support for the new political initiative announced by the Sahrawi president, regarding the construction of civil and administrative structures in liberated territories, such as a legitimate act of exercising the sovereignty of the government of the Saharawi Republic over all its territory.