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Bir Lahlou, April 6, 2024 (SPS) - The Sahrawi government has firmly denounced France's intention to invest in and finance projects in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, stating that this move represents explicit support for the illegal Moroccan occupation of certain parts of the Sahrawi national territory and a flagrant violation of international law and France's international obligations.

Bir Lehlou (Sahrawi Republic), 5 April 2024-SPS-The Sahrawi Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a Communiqué today expressing strong condemnation of the statement issued following the meeting of the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara, Mr Staffan de Mistura, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the occupying state of Morocco yesterday.

Bir Lehlu (Liberated Territories), April 5, 2024 (SPS) - Units of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) targeted the trenches of the occupation soldiers in the Mahbes sector, resulting in significant losses in lives and equipment.

Awsard (Refugee Camps), April 04, 2024 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, on Thursday supervised the kick-off of the activities of the first national conference on water in the Wilaya of Awsard, Sahrawi refugee camps. The conference was attended by the Minister of the sector, member of the National Secretariat, Mr.

Nouakchott (Mauritania), April 04, 2024 (SPS) - Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Sheikh El Ghazouani received on Wednesday the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, according to the Mauritanian News Agency.

The meeting was attended by the Minister in charge of the Office of the President of the Republic, Mr. Mokhtar Ould Diay, Mr. Ahmed Bahin, in charge of a mission at the Presidency of the Republic, and the UN Resident Coordinator in Mauritania, Ms. Leila Peters Yahya, according to the same source.

Occupied El-Aaiún, 3 April 2024 (SPS) - The Moroccan occupation continues its serious violations against Sahrawi civil prisoners by intensifying retaliatory measures against them, pushing them to engage in hunger strikes that endanger their lives, such as the case of the civil prisoner Abd al-Moula Mohamed Al-Hafed.

Abd al-Moula Mohamed Al-Hafed has been on an open hunger strike since the first of April, protesting against ill-treatment, according to a Sahrawi human rights source, citing the prisoner's sister.

Brussels, 3 April 2024 (SPS) - The team of the European Coordination for Solidarity with the Sahrawi People (ECOCO) pledged, during a meeting in Brussels, to activate collaborative work in accompanying the Sahrawi people in their struggle to achieve their right to self-determination and independence.

New York, 2 April 2024 (SPS) - The UN Security Council will hold on 16 April closed consultations on the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), including briefings by Special Representative for Western Sahara and Head of MINURSO, Alexander Ivanko, and the UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy, Staffan De Mistura.

This session is being held in accordance with Security Council Resolution 2703, adopted on 30 October 2023, renewing MINURSO's mandate for a supplementary year, until 31 October 2024.

Madrid, 2 April 2024 (SPS) - The representative of the Polisario Front in Spain, Abdulah Arabi, has warned the Spanish public company responsible for air navigation management, ENAIRE E.P.E., against violating international law in Western Sahara through the use of a false map.

In a letter addressed to the president of the Spanish company, Mr. Arabi emphasized that the disregard for the distinct and separate status of Western Sahara from Moroccan territory in the maps used in its applications constitutes a violation of international law.

Madrid, 2 April 2024 (SPS)  - The Spanish political party Podemos has reiterated its support for the United Nations' efforts to organize a referendum for self-determination in Western Sahara, expressing rejection of the idea proposed by the Socialist Party (PSOE) to bend to the interests of other countries.

Lombardy (Italy), April 01, 2024 (SPS) - Swedish activists Sanaa Chotbe and Benjamin Ladraa continue their journey around the world on bicycles, aiming to shed light on the struggle of the Sahrawi people and their just cause.

The activists decided to undertake this humanitarian project and cover a distance of 30,000 kilometers across 30 countries in the world to raise awareness and understanding of the Sahrawi issue.

Shahid El Hafed, April 01, 2024 (SPS) - The Minister of Public Health, Mr. Saleck Baba Hassena, received yesterday, Sunday, the Director of Vaccination at the Algerian Ministry of Health, Dr. El Aid Youssef.

The meeting discussed the bilateral relations between the two ministries in many common health topics, most notably the field of vaccination, training, development of health programs and their comprehensiveness.

Shaheed El Hafed, 30 March 2024 (SPS) - The Ministry of Occupied Territories and Diaspora Affairs has commended the efforts of the Sahrawi diaspora in various regions of the world in defending the cause of their homeland and their awareness and conviction that they are an external front of struggle in extension of the liberation battle inside the occupied territory.

Shaheed El Hafed, March 29, 2024 (SPS) - The Saharawi News Agency, Sahara Press Service (SPS), celebrates today, Friday, its 25th anniversary since its establishment on 29 March 1999, at a time when the Sahrawi people and the world as a whole are facing major challenges, most notably the return to armed struggle and the return of the conflict to square one.

Bir Lehlou (Sahrawi Republic), March 28, 2024 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, congratulated Thursday Mr. Bassirou Diomaye Faye on his election as the new President of the Republic of Senegal.

On behalf of the Sahrawi people and government, and on his own behalf, President Brahim Ghali extended his warmest congratulations to President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, wishing him all the best in serving the brotherly Senegalese people.

Algeria, March 28, 2024 (SPS) - Member of the National Secretariat, Ambassador to Algeria, Mr. Abdelkader Taleb Omar, received a delegation from the Algerian Guidance and Reform Association led by Mr. Mahdi Bouhajar, Vice President of the Association, which is one of the Algerian associations working in the humanitarian field for more than 33 years. This association has previously provided humanitarian aid to the Sahrawi people.

Washington  (US), 27 March 2024 (SPS) - The United States of America has reiterated its support for the United Nations' efforts to reach a fair, permanent, and mutually acceptable political solution based on the resolutions of the UN Security Council.

Valladolid (Castilla y León), 26 March  2024 (SPS) - Political forces in Castilla y León demonstrate strong support for the Sahrawi people in their struggle for self-determination and independence. Both the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the Popular Party (Partido Popular) in the regional parliament have expressed their resolute support for the Sahrawi cause in meetings held with the Delegate of the Polisario Front in the region, Abdalahe Hamad.

Algiers, 25 March 2024 (SPS) - At the initiative of Algeria, backed by the other elected members, UN Security Council adopted Monday a resolution demanding an "immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan" in Gaza, opening the way to the end of nearly six months of Zionist entity's genocidal assault on the population of the Palestinian enclave.

Rejected several times by the United States, which had been using the veto, the call for an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza passed after the abstention of the US.

Madrid, 25 March 2024 (SPS) - The representative of the Polisario Front in Spain, Abdullah Al Arabi, has affirmed that the only just and final solution is the one that ensures the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination and independence.

The Sahrawi diplomat reiterated in his speech during the first conference of the Spanish party SUMAR the importance of ensuring the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination and independence, calling for the necessary measures to be taken for Spain to fulfill its responsibilities towards the Sahrawi people.