October 2024

Shaheed Al-Hafed, October 20, 2024 (SPS) - The Secretary General of the General Union of Algerian Workers, Mr. Amar Takdjout, arrived yesterday in the Sahrawi refugee camps on a two-day visit to participate in the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Sahrawi Trade Union “UGTSARIO”.

Mr. Amar Takdjout received an official and popular reception in the wilaya of Smara. He also held meetings with the regional and local authorities of the wilaya.

Shaheed Al-Hafed, October 20, 2024 (SPS) - The Sahrawi civilian prisoner within the Gdeim Izik group, Sidi Abdeljalil Kamal Laaroussi, who was unjustly sentenced to life imprisonment, has begun an open hunger strike since Wednesday, October 16, 2024, in the Ibn Sina University Hospital in Rabat, in protest against the lack of hospital conditions and the continuous pressures he is subjected to inside the hospital.

New York (United Nations), October 19, 2024 (SPS) - Dr. Sidi Mohamed Omar, member of the National Secretariat, Polisario Front representative at the United Nations and Coordinator with MINURSO, reiterated the Sahrawi people's categorical rejection of any proposal, whatever its formula, that is outside the international framework for Western Sahara as a decolonization issue and does not guarantee our people's inalienable right to self-determination and independence.

Algiers, October 19, 2024 (SPS) – The Algerian Social Democratic Forces Union Party, led by its Secretary-General Mr. Abdel Rahman Saleh, renewed its support and solidarity with the Sahrawi people and their just struggle, during a political seminar organized by the party at its headquarters in Algiers.

Shaheed Al-Hafed, October 19, 2024 (SPS) - A delegation from the Basque Country has begun a visit to Sahrawi state institutions, during which it will learn about the reality of the Sahrawi people and monitor the functioning of Sahrawi state institutions.

The delegation, which includes 41 people including politicians, parliamentarians and solidarity activists from various regions of the Basque Country, aims behind this visit to strengthen political solidarity between Basque and Sahrawi institutions.

Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), October 19, 2024 (SPS) - Advanced detachments of Sahrawi People's Liberation Army fighters targeted Moroccan enemy bases in Al-Baghari sector, causing heavy losses in lives and equipment.

According to the military statement issued by the Central Directorate of the Political Prefecture of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army, advanced units of SPLA carried out on Thursday, a concentrated bombardment, twice in a row, targeting enemy bases in the Hafrat Al-Shiyaf area in Al-Baghari sector.

Occupied Laayoune, October 19, 2024 (SPS) - The administration of the Ait Melloul 2 local prison, on the outskirts of the Moroccan city of Agadir, on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, prevented the Sahrawi civilian prisoners from the Gdeim Izik group, Mohamed Ahnini Al-Ruh Bani and Ibrahim Dadi Ismaili, from receiving appropriate medical care after excluding them from undergoing medical examinations on their bones and joints.

Occupied Boujdour (Sahrawi Republic) October 19, 2024 (SPS) - The Sahrawi Organization Against the Moroccan Occupation (ISACOM) confirmed that the Makhzen Regime targets Sahrawi activists using various means, including close surveillance, in an attempt to take revenge on them for their human rights activities against the occupation of their land.

Bir Lahlou (liberated territories), 18 October 2024 (SPS) - Units of the Sahrawi Popular Liberation Army (SPLA) continue to target the positions of the Moroccan occupation army in the Haouza and El Farsiya sectors, stated a communiqué from the Central Directorate of the Political Commissariat of the Sahrawi Army on Thursday.  

Geneva, 18 October 2024 (SPS) - Algeria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and international organizations in Geneva, Rachid Bladehane rejected in “clear and unequivocal” terms Morocco's blackmail of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and other humanitarian agencies, denouncing the “fallacious and unfounded” arguments used by this country to block the work of this UN organization and “accuse” Algeria.

New York (UN), 18 October 2024 (SPS) - UN General Assembly (UNGA), Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee), in its 79th high-level session on Thursday, approved without a vote a draft resolution on Western Sahara, by referring to the principles set forth in the UN Charter UNGA Resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.

Algiers (Algeria) 17 October 2024 (SPS) - Swedish activists Benjamin Ladraa and Sanae Qutbi, who are advocating for the Sahrawi cause, arrived on Wednesday in Algeria as part of their awareness campaign "Bike for Western Sahara" to support the just cause of the Sahrawi people.

Nairobi (Kenya) 17 October 2024 (SPS)- The Communist Party of Kenya (CPK) strongly endorsed the recent ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) invalidating agreements between Morocco and the European Union (EU) that exploit the natural resources of Western Sahara.

In a statement issued by its Central Organizing Committee (COC) Yesterday and published on its official Website, the CPK described the ruling as a pivotal moment in the Saharawi people’s fight for independence and their inalienable right to self-determination.

Chahid El Hafed (Sahrawi Republic) 17 October 2024 (SPS) - Polisario Front reiterated its categorical refusal to discuss any proposal or idea outside the legal framework of the Sahrawi issue, in a communiqué that concluded the meeting of the Permanent Bureau of its National Secretariat Today.

Following is the full text of the Communique:

The Frente POLISARIO categorically rejects to discuss any proposal or idea that is outside the legal framework of the Western Sahara question

National Secretariat

New York (UN), 17 October 2024 (SPS) - The UN Security Council held closed-door consultations on Wednesday evening in New York regarding the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).

Under the presidency of Switzerland, the Council heard a briefing from the UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, who presented the results of his activities over the past few months, including his visit to the Sahrawi side on October 3rd.

New York (UN), 17 October 2024 (SPS) - Algeria reiterated, in New York, its position of support to the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination and to the UN efforts to reach a political solution to the issue of Western Sahara, during two consecutive rights of reply by its permanent representative in the United Nations, Amar Bendjama.

Shaheed El Hafed, October 17, 2024 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, received the Algerian Minister of Mujahideen and Rights Holders, Mr. Laid Rebiga, in his office at the Presidency of the Republic.

Shaheed Al-Hafed, October 17, 2024 (SPS) - The Algerian Minister of Mujahideen and Rights Holders, Laid Rebiga, arrived Thursday at Raed Farraj Airport in Tindouf as part of a visit to the Sahrawi Republic.

Upon his arrival at the airport, the Algerian minister was received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Sidati, the National Director of Protocol, Mr. Bellahi, and the Wali of Tindouf, Mr. Daho Mustafa, along with civil and military authorities of Tindouf.

Algiers, 16 October 2024 (SPS) - Algeria encourages international humanitarian agencies and donors to "contribute" to the implementation of the support plan for 173,600 Sahrawi refugees in need, said Wednesday the Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations Office and international organizations in Geneva, Rachid Bladehane.

New York (United Nations), 16 October 2024 (SPS) - Algeria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Amar Bendjama, called on Wednesday from New York, for international equality and justice regarding the decolonization of Western Sahara