Paris, Jan 27, 2017 (SPS) - The Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT) awarded Saturday, in Paris, its 2017 human rights prize to Naama Asfari, a Sahrawi activist imprisoned in Morocco since November 2010.
The prize was given to his wife Claude Mangin who read movingly a letter from Naama, in a ceremony to which participated more than one hundred people.
“We shouldn’t give up. The struggle continues,” said the Sahrawi activist who was a victim of torture and violent acts when he was arrested by the Moroccan authorities.

Berlin, Jan 27, 2017 (SPS) - The meeting between the Sahrawi President and Secretary General of Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, and the United Nations Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Horst Kohler, was "frank" and "positive," said Friday in Berlin M'hamed Kheddad, member of the Polisario Front Secretariat General and Sahrawi Coordinator with the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).

El-Aaiun (Occupied Territories), January 26, 2018 (SPS) - The Moroccan forces intervened Thursday violently against the funeral tent of deceased father Deida Ould Yazid in the occupied city of El-Aaiun, reported SPS correspondent on the scene.

London, Jan 26, 2018 (SPS) - The Swiss multinational Glencore has ended all its illegal oil exploration activities in the territorial waters of Western Sahara, occupied by Morocco, said the Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) in a statement.
Glencore, one of the world's largest companies present in the occupied territory since 2013, has left the Boujdour Offshore Shallow oil exploration block, said the source.

London, Jan 26, 2017 (SPS) - In its annual report of 2018, published on Wednesday, Western Sahara Action Forum (WSAF) called to “immediately” extend the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to include human rights monitoring in this occupied territory.
MINURSO must be able to make reports on the situation of human rights and in the Western Saharan zones occupied by Morocco and send its findings to the UN Security Council, recommended WSAF.

Berlin (Germany), Jan 25, 2018 (SPS) -The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO, Brahim Gali, was received today by Mr. Horst Koehler, Personal Envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations, in Mr. Koehler's office in Berlin.

Chahid El Hafed, Jan 25, 2018 (SPS) - The Ministry of the occupied territories and Abroad Communities learnt with deep sorrow the news of the death of the fighter Dida Ould Yazid, after suffering a health problem at his home in the occupied Aaiun on the morning of January 25, 2018.

Havana, Jan 25, 2018 (SPS) - A delegation from the Saharawi embassy in Cuba, composed of the Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy of the SADR in Cuba, Mohamed Ali Ali Salem and the Cultural Attaché, Abdel Mayid Ahmed Nayi, has visited, during the last two days, the Sahrawi students in the universities in the provinces of Cienfuegos and Villa Clara.

Occupied Aaiun, Jan 24, 2018 (SPS) - Moroccan occupation forces intervened violently against Sahrawi demonstrators, most of them Unemployed, on Monday, 22 January 2018, near the neighborhood of Maatal in the occupied capital Aaiun.
 

Shaheed El-Hafed, January 22, 2018 (SPS) - The Council of Sahrawi Doctors held Monday a meeting to renovate its structures, following the last congress of the Polisario Front, in the presence of members of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front , the SADR Government and Sahrawi doctors.
In his speech, the Minister of Public Health, Mohamed Lamine Deddi, highlighted the importance of holding this gathering, praising the spirit of patriotism, perseverance and discipline that characterize the work of the doctors.