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Panama, 20 June 2021 (SPS) - The participants in the 34th World Congress of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) reelected Friday the Union of Sahrawi Youth (UJSARIO) as Vice President of the International Organization, for the fifth time in a row.
The participants in the IUSY 34th World Congress also endorsed a motion in which they expressed their unconditional support for the legitimate struggle of the Sahrawi people for freedom, and their rejection of any attempt to deprive it of its inalienable right to self-determination.

London, 20 June 2021 (SPS) - Blueberry farms are currently being set up in the occupied city of Dakhla in Western Sahara, warns the international observatory Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW), calling on retailers to take action against "the financing of Moroccan colonization."
"Blueberries made in Morocco will, in the near future, not only be produced in Morocco, but also in occupied Western Sahara," deplored the WSRW on its website.

Algiers, 19 June 2021 (SPS) - The university professor and director of the Center for Western Sahara Studies at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Carlos Ruiz Miguela, returned to the decision of former U.S. President, Donald Trump, about the alleged "sovereignty of Morocco over Western Sahara," saying that this decision "undermines peace in North Africa."

Algiers, 19 June 2021 (SPS) - The latest developments of the Sahrawi issue as well as means and ways to strengthen the support to the Sahrawi people were Thursday at the heart of a political-diplomatic meeting in Algiers.
Organized jointly by the embassy of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and South Africa’s embassy in Algiers, the meeting was marked by the presence of 15 accredited ambassadors to Algeria representing African, Latino-American and Asian countries.

Madrid, 19 June 2021 (SPS) - Hundreds of members of the civil society and political parties demonstrated Friday before the headquarters of Foreign Affairs Ministry in Madrid, calling on the Spanish government to assume its legal, political and historical responsibilities vis-à-vis the Sahrawi people and to help them to organize a referendum on self-determination.

Bir Lehlou (Saharawi Republic) 19 June 2021 (SPS)_ The President of the Saharawi Republic, Mr. Brahim Ghali, sent a letter of condolences Friday to the President of Zambia, Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu, in which he paidtribute to the former Zambian President and founding father, President Kenneth Kuanda.

Luanda (Angola), June 18, 2021 (SPS) - The ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Angola, Mr. Hamdi Jalil Meyara, met this Wednesday with Mr. Domingos Custódio Vieira, Minister of International Cooperation and Angolan Communities.
The meeting addressed the bilateral relations between the two countries, as well as the best ways to strengthen it and promote its progress.

Berlin (Germany), June 17, 2021 (SPS) - In the midst of Morocco's aggression against neighboring countries and the European Union to gain support in their policies contrary to international legality, the Secretary of State for Global Spain, Manuel Muñiz has warned that the position of his countries, with legal and historical responsibility in the process of decolonization of Western Sahara, "has not changed and will not change.

Paris, June 18, 2021 (SPS) - France which supports Morocco in Western Sahara is involved in the perpetuation of the last colonial operation in Africa, Representative of the Frente POLISARIO in France, Mohamed Sidati, recently lamented.
The involvement of France allows to perpetuate the last colonial operation in Africa," said the Sahrawi representative during the "Decolonial Month" held in Grenoble throughout the month of June.

New York (United Nations) 17 June 2021 (SPS)- Mozambique called on the UN General Assembly’s Committee on Decolonisation (C-24) to fully assume its responsibilty towards the Saharawi people with a view to enable them exercise their right to self-determination and independence, in a statement delivered last Monday before the meeting of the C-24 in New York.

New York (United Nations) 16 June 2021 (SPS)- The Permanent Representative of Angola to the UN, Ambassador Maria de Jesus Ferreira, called on the UN to push towards direct negotiations between Polisario Front and the kingdom of Morocco to enable the people of Western Sahara to freely exercise their inalienable right to self-determination and independence.

New York, June 15, 2021 (SPS) - Algerian Ambassador to the United Nations Sofiane Mimouni on Monday called for the rapid appointment of a new UNSG personal envoy for Western Sahara, deploring the "unilateral procrastination "and the" consciously raised obstacles "to the organization of the self-determination referendum in the occupied territories.

 New York (United Nations) 15 June 2021 (SPS)- Frente Polisario Representative to the UN, Dr. Sidi Omar, called on the UN General Assembly’s Committee of 24 (C-24) to implement General Assembly’s resolution 1514 in Western Sahara, recalling that sovereignty over the territory is exclusive to the Saharawi people, in his statement before t

Algiers, 14 June 2021 (SPS) - The Security Council must assume its responsibilities vis-à-vis the issue of Western Sahara, Sahrawi Foreign Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Salek told the German channel Deutsche Welle.
The Sahrawi minister said he expected, notably from the USA and France, two permanent members of the Security Council, that they oblige Morocco to respect its own commitments concerning the issue of Western Sahara.
The Security Council’s passive position has had negative effects on the ground, according to him.

Washington, 14 June 2021 (SPS) – In recent days, Morocco has suffered multiple diplomatic setbacks with regard to the Sahrawi question. It has gradually lost the American support expressed last December by former US President Donald Trump and has seen the European countries rejecting its alleged sovereignty over the Sahrawi territories.
The latest setback came from the US Congress, which blocked the inauguration of a consulate in occupied Dakhla and an operation of armed drones sale as well.

Bir Lahlou, 13 June 2021 (SPS) - Units of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) carried out Sunday new attacks against the positions of the Moroccan occupation army along the berm, said a communiqué of the Sahrawi Ministry of Defence.
According to the 214th communiqué, "SPLA units shelled the positions of the occupation forces in the region of Amekli Edachra Amkala and in the region of Oum Dakn in the El Bakari sector.

Paris, 13 June 2021 (SPS) - Sahrawi Foreign Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Salek said that it was high time for France and Spain to bring Morocco to the negotiating table with the Sahrawi officials and to cease the war that has been going on since last November in Western Sahara, making respect for the Sahrawi people’s alienable right to self-determination conditional on the resumption of negotiations.

Occupied El Aaiun, 13 June 2021 (SPS) – President of the Sahrawi Body against the Moroccan occupation (ISACOM), Aminatou Haidar welcomed, Friday, the decision of the European Parliament which unanimously condemns Morocco for blackmailing Spain by exploiting minors in "a purely inhuman and immoral collective immigration."
Despite this decision, "the Europen Parliament has not shed light on the real reasons behind the Moroccan obstinacy," due "to the negligence and complicity of the EU with the Moroccan occupier’s system.”

Algiers, 12 June 2021 (SPS) -  The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Ibrahim Ghali, received a letter from the Secretary-General of the Algerian National Liberation Front, Mr. Abou El Fadl Baadji, in which he expressed his passion in following up on the health situation of the President of the Republic, wishing him a speedy recovery.

Algiers,June 11, 2021 (SPS) -  The ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) to Algiers Abdelkader Taleb Omar affirmed Thursday that the Moroccan system has experienced “bitter defeats,” the last one was within the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), after Western Sahara was elected vice-president of regional group for North Africa .