Paris, 30 November 2020 (SPS) - Sahrawi representative of the Polisario Front to Paris Mohamed Sidati denounced Saturday the policy and bias of France for Morocco which delays and complicates the task of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
Paris, 30 November 2020 (SPS) - Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Saturday at “The Place de la République” in Paris to denounce the Moroccan aggression on civilian Sahrawi people in El Guerguerat and called on the United Nations to take action to oblige Morocco to comply with the international law.
The demonstrators, carrying placards and banners, chanted slogans against the Moroccan aggression and expressed their solidarity and support to the Sahrawi liberation army in El Guerguerat, in the south-west of Western Sahara.
Australia, November 29, 2020 (SPS) - The Socialist Alliance has condemned Morocco’s occupation and military attacks on West Sahara, in a statement issue on Saturday by its National Executive.
The following is full read of the statement:
“Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara has always been illegitimate. We recognise Western Sahara as belonging to the Saharawi people and the Polisario Front as the legitimate representatives of Saharawi people and express solidarity with them in their David and Goliath struggle.
Paris, 29 November 2020 (SPS) - Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Saturday at La Place de la République in Paris to denounce the Moroccan repression against Sahrawi people and demand an emergency meeting of the Security Council to accelerate the organization of the referendum for self-determination in occupied Western Sahara.
The gathering took place at the call of the Collective of Associations of the Sahrawi Community in France and the Platform for Solidarity with the People of Western Sahara, Mohamed Sidati told APS.
Algiers, 29 November 2020 (SPS) - Sahrawi ambassador to Algeria Abdelkader Taleb Omar said Saturday that Morocco has been mobilizing demonstrators to back its colonial schemes, using "threat, intimidation or Conscience purchases."
Shaheed El Hafed, 28 November 2020 (SPS) - The minister of Information and spokesman of the government of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Hamada Selma, warned Friday against Morocco's "expansionist designs" in the region, stressing that Morocco occupation authorities do not respect the constitutive act of the African Union under which the member States undertake to respect the inherited colonial borders.
Havana (Cuba), 28 November 2020 (SPS) - The president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Brahim Ghali, participated, at the invitation of Cuba's Communist Youth Union, in the "Pioneering Ideas" event held Havana, where he put forward the determination of Western Sahara people to enter into a new stage of their sacred and legitimate fight.
Algiers, 28 November 2020 (SPS) - Ambassador of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (Rasd) to Algeria Abdelkader Taleb Omar said Wednesday that the new statements made by the Spokesman for the United Nations (UN) Secretary General on the need to remove all obstacles to the resumption of negotiations targeted Morocco.
Algiers, 28 November 2020 (SPS) - The Solidarity National Association of Algerian Journalists with Sahrawi people’s struggle for independence was created Wednesday in Algiers.
Operated under the name of "Network of Algerian journalists in solidarity with the Sahrawi people," the association aims to fight against media blackout imposed by Morocco on the situation in Western Sahara, particularly after the resumption of armed actions last November 13 because of the aggressions by the Moroccan occupation army.
Algiers, 28 November 2020 (SPS) - Ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Algeria, Abdelkader Taleb Omar, affirmed on Wednesday that "the Moroccan expansion hindered the project of the Maghreb Arab Union (AMU) and not the Sahrawi cause as claimed by the Moroccan regime," adding that the Sahrawi Republic’s annexation will be a destructive factor in the region and in Africa as a whole.
Paris (France) November 26, 2020 (SAPS) - French deputy and the chairman of Western Sahara Study Group at French National Assembly, Mr. Jean-Paul Lecoq, has called the attention of his country’s foreign minister about the ongoing tension in Western Sahara, after Morocco violated the ceasefire agreement.
Shaheed Al-Hafed, 26 November 2020 (SPS) - Saharawi Republic (SADR) on Wednesday participated in the ninth meeting of the African Internet Governance Forum, held virtually on 25-27 November 2020.
Organized by the AU Commission, the meeting brought together experts representing member states as well as international organizations and bodies concerned with this issue.
The conference aims to discuss digital inclusion, particularly in relation to building community networks, digital transformation, cybersecurity and digital cooperation.
New York (United States), Nov 25TH, 2020 (SPS) -Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the United Nations Secretary General confirmed on Tuesday the continuation of hostilities in Western Sahara, calling for the elimination of all obstacles to the resumption of the political process.
"We also continue to receive reports of sporadic gunfire, and this along the northern and eastern parts of the Moroccan sand wall," he told a press briefing, in the moment when Morocco continues to downplay the scale of clashes in El Guerguarat, southwest of Western Sahara.
New York (United States), Nov 25TH, 2020 (SPS) - The United Nations Security Council accepted as an official document the statement of South Africa President and the rotating President of the African Union, Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa, made after Morocco's violation of the ceasefire in the El Garguerat area, southwest Western Sahara, at the request of the Representative of South Africa to the United Nations, Jerry Matthews Matjila.
Australia, Nov 25th, (SPS) – The Australian Greens has profoundly expressed its concern over reports that the Moroccan government has launched a military operation in a United Nations-patrolled buffer strip in Western Sahara, urging the UN to broker a renewed cease-fire as soon as possible.
The Australian Greens condemned the violence and breakdown in the UN-backed ceasefire in Western Sahara, adding that any acts of aggression by the Moroccan government are unacceptable.
Algiers, 24 November 2020 (SPS) - The Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) deplored Morocco’s recent gross violation of the ceasefire in Gergerat zone in Western Sahara, expressing concern over the situation in the occupied part of the Saharawi Republic.
In a conference of solidarity with the Saharawi people, FLN Secretary General, Mr. Abou El Fadl Baadji, stated that Western Sahara issue “is a matter of decolonization and a sacred and untouchable issue for Algeria”, adding that FLN militants cannot “stand idly by” before such an unjust aggression.
Paris, Nov 24, 2020 (SPS) - The National Youth Council of the French Communist Party, expressed its unconditional support to the Frente POLISARIO and the Saharawi Youth in their struggle for independence, freedom and respect for their rights in the legitimate demand to organize a referendum to determine the fate of the Sahrawi people.
Shaheed Al-Hafed, 24 November (SPS) - The Saharawi Ministry of Social Welfare and Women Promotion participates at a virtual meeting, organized on November 23-24, 2020 by Women, Gender and Development Directorate of the AU Commission.
The meeting deals with the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa, AU Srategy on Equality and Empowerment of Women, the Project All for Maputo Protocol and the gender equality project.
The Ministry was represented at this meeting by Ms. Mamiha Cheij Bachir. (SPS)
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Algiers, 23 November 2020 (SPS) - Ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) to Algeria Abdelkader Taleb Omar, said on Monday that "the Sahrawi people will continue the armed struggle until obtaining guarantees and operational measures for the organization of self-determination referendum," noting "the significant losses suffered by Morocco since the outbreak of the war."
Nouakchott, November 23, 2020 (SPS) - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Mohamed-Salem Ould-Salek, was received today, Monday, as an envoy of President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, by Mauritanian President, Mr. Mohamed Ould-Sheikh Al-Ghazwani, at the Presidential Palace in Nouakchott.