February 2024

Bir Lahlou (liberated territories), February 21, 2024 (SPS) - Sahrawi People's Liberation Army units targeted a military base of the occupation army in the Mahbas sector, causing heavy losses in lives and equipment.

The military communiqué issued on Tuesday highlighted that advanced units of SPLA carried out concentrated bombardment targeting a Moroccan base hostile in the Laagad area in the Mahbas sector, causing heavy losses.

The attacks of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army continue, targeting the burrows and hideouts of the Moroccan army.

berlin , February 21, 2024 (SPS) - The University of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe of Frankfurt (Germany) will host a multidisciplinary meeting on Western Sahara from the 25th to the 27th of this month.  The conference  coincides with the celebrations of the Saharawi people for the 48th anniversary of the proclamation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).

Algeria, February 20, 2024 (SPS) - The Algerian Minister of Health, Mr. Abdelhak Saihi, received the Sahrawi Minister of Public Health, Mr. Salek Baba Hasanna, accompanied by the Sahrawi Ambassador to Algeria and a member of the National Secretariat, Mr. Abdelkader Taleb Omar.

The meeting discussed cooperation relations between the two countries and the prospects for their development, especially in the field of health, where the Algerian Minister of Health expressed full readiness to provide support and assistance in this regard.

Caracas (Venezuela), February 20, 2024 (SPS) - African women renewed their support and solidarity with Sahrawi women on the occasion of Sahrawi Mother’s Day, which coincides with February 18th.

Sahrawi women received fraternal messages full of support and solidarity from women’s organizations from the Republic of South Africa, Zambia, Benin and the Coordination of the Global Women’s March in Africa. These organizations expressed their support for the heroic struggle of the Sahrawi women for freedom and independence.

Shahid al-Hafed, February 20, 2024 (SPS) - The Sahrawi National Council expressed its denunciation of the Moroccan occupation’s persistence in violating human rights and international conventions and covenants in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, through a policy of ethnic cleansing and scorched earth, and its attempt to expand its settlements in the occupied territories.

Bir Lahlou (Sahrawi Republic), February 20, 2024 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, sent a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. António Guterres, in which he expressed the Polisario Front’s strong condemnation of the Moroccan repression forces’ demolition and burning down many rural homes and huts owned by Sahrawi families in the occupied Sahrawi territories.

Ait Melloul, February 20, 2024 (SPS) - The family of the Sahrawi civilian prisoner within the Gdeim Izik group, Ibrahim Daddi Ismaili, who is in the local prison of Ait Melloul 2, city of Agadir, Morocco, reported on Monday to the Association for the Protection of Sahrawi Prisoners that Ibrahim Daddi Ismaili, had undergone a severe health condition deterioration that required his urgent transfer to the hospital.

Shahid al-Hafed, 20, 2024 (SPS)- The Sahrawi News Agency “SPS” expressed its sincere apologize to its esteemed readers for the uncontrollable technical glitch that caused its website to stop for 48 hours.

Based on our keenness to maintain the regularity of our news services, the technical defect has been corrected, and the website has returned to service again.

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Addis Ababa (African Union), February 19, 2024 (SPS) - The 37th Summit of the African Union has concluded, adopting reports, decisions, and declarations.

Shaheed Al Hafed, February 18, 2024 (SPS) - The Polisario Front has expressed its condemnation of the strategy pursued by the Spanish Foreign Minister, Mr. Jose Albarés, aimed at undermining the legitimacy of the Sahrawi cause.

The Polisario Front considered the recent statements of the Spanish Foreign Minister as lacking convincing foundations, especially when discussing the Sahrawi refugee camps, with the intent to sow doubts and undermine the global solidarity movement with the Sahrawi people.

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), February 18, 2024 (SPS) - The Ambassador in charge of Africa, Mr. Mohamed Yeslim Beissat, expressed the regret of the Sahrawi Republic for the African Peace and Security Council's report ignoring the seriousness of the deterioration of political, security and military relations in the North African region.

Addis Ababa, February 18, 2024 (SPS) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Mr. Abiy Ahmed received yesterday evening the Heads of State and delegations attending the 37th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly.
President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Brahim Ghali attended the event accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Mohamed Sidati.
The President of the Republic was welcomed upon his arrival at the reception venue by the Ethiopian Prime Minister.

Addis Ababa, February 18, 2024 (SPS) - On the sidelines of the 37th African Union Summit, the curtain was raised on the memorial of the late Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, in the presence of the President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, along with Heads of State and delegations participating in the Summit.

Addis Ababa, February 18, 2024 (SPS) - The President of the Republic and Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, participated in a breakfast meeting hosted by the Kenyan government on sustainable African vaccine production. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 37th Summit of the African Union Heads of State and Government, held in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on February 17 and 18.

Shaheed Al Hafed, February 17, 2024 (SPS) - The Polisario Front has expressed its condemnation of the strategy pursued by the Spanish Foreign Minister, Mr. Jose Albarés, aimed at undermining the legitimacy of the Sahrawi cause.

The Polisario Front considered the recent statements of the Spanish Foreign Minister as lacking convincing foundations, especially when discussing the Sahrawi refugee camps, with the intent to sow doubts and undermine the global solidarity movement with the Sahrawi people.

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), February 17, 2024 (SPS) - The Ambassador in charge of Africa, Mr. Mohamed Yeslim Beissat, expressed the regret of the Sahrawi Republic for the African Peace and Security Council's report ignoring the seriousness of the deterioration of political, security and military relations in the North African region.

In a speech before the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union, the Ambassador stressed that this deterioration is mainly due, "in our case, to the illegal occupation of parts of the Sahrawi Republic by the Kingdom of Morocco."

Occupied El-Aaiún, 17 February 2024 (SPS) - The Committee for the Protection of Sahrawi Civilian of the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA) condemned the continuing acts of eviction, forced displacement, and seizure of properties belonging to Sahrawi civilians in the occupied territories by the Moroccan occupation forces, as a prelude to a wide-scale settlement.

Addis Ababa, 17 February 2024 (SPS) - The 37th Summit of the African Union kicked off on Saturday, in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, in presence of the President of the Republic and Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali.

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), 17 February 2024 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, arrived friday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to participate in the 37th session of the African Union Summit.

Addis Ababa, 17 February  2024 (SPS) - Mr. Khatri Adouh, the Minister of Education and Vocational Training, participated in the inaugural meeting to make 2024 the year of education, science, technology, and innovation in the African continent.