Bogotá, March 07, 2017 (SPS) -The head of International Relations of the UNMS has presented a conference at the free university of Colombia on the human rights situation in the occupied Western Sahara by Morocco.
The conference took place on Friday, March 3 and was attended by Dr. Dean, Mr. Carlos Arturo Hernández Díaz, the director of the Department of Socials, Don. Néstor Barón, Deputy Dean Hernando Peña and teachers of this university.

Algiers, March 6, 2017 (SPS) – President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, has expressed hope that the US current administration led by Donald Trump will contribute in accelerating a just, lasting and democratic solution in Western Sahara, through the urgent application of the UN and AU settlement plan in 1991.

Acraa (Ghana), March 6, 2017 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, sent a congratulatory message to his Ghanaian counterpart Mr. Nana Addo Dankwa Akofo-Addo, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Ghana, the first independent country in sub-Saharan Africa.

Luxembourg, March 5, 2017 (SPS) - Deputy Minister for Europe, Mohamed Sidati, has affirmed in an interview with Euronews Chanel “the standoff in Guerguerat occurred because Morocco violated the cease-fire by crossing the wall” and “tensions had been growing, but that should not mask the root of the problem which is the Western Sahara conflict.”
Below is the text of the full interview:

Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), March 5, 2017 (SPS) -The Sahrawi people are celebrating on Sunday the 41st anniversary of the foundation of the first Sahrawi government, with the resolution of pursuing the fight to recover their land from the Moroccan occupier.
In a context marked by legal and diplomatic victories and a large-scale campaign of international solidarity in support to the Sahrawi cause, the Council of Ministers held a meeting under the chairmanship of Sahrawi president and Secretary General of Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali.

Bir-Lehlu (Liberated Zones), March 5, 2017 (SPS)- The Council of Ministers set during a meeting Friday in the liberated town of Bir-Lehlu, an action plan for the reconstruction of the liberated zones of Western Sahara to realize the decisions of the 14th Congress of the Polisario Front and the Government programme for the year 2017.

Shaheed El-Hafed (Refugee Camps), March 5, 2017 (SPS) – President of Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, inaugurated the new center of preparation of electronic documents, associated to the Central Directorate of Statistics.

Bir-Lehlu (Liberated Zones), March 4, 2017 (SPS) - The Council of  Ministers has expressed rejection to the Moroccan attempts to deceive the world by retreating few meters into its trenches in the military wall.   

Bamako (Mali), March 4, 2017 (SPS) – The 11th Ordinary Congress of the Organization of African Trade Union Unity (OATUU), held in Bamako, Mali, has expressed its solidarity with the struggle of the Sahrawi people for self-determination and independence.
The Congress welcomed, in a recommendation, all international, United Nations and African Union resolutions in favour of a fair and lasting solution to the Western Sahara conflict.
The recommendation called on the United Nations to speed-up the settlement process in Western Sahara. (SPS)

Washington, March 4, 2017 (SPS) - The Moroccan authorities continued in 2016 imposing restrictions on the civil and political rights of the Sahrawis in the occupied territories, according to the US Department of State in its annual report on human rights practices in the world.
“The most significant human rights problems in the territory of Western Sahara were Moroccan government restrictions on the civil liberties and on the political rights of pro-independence advocates,” US Department of State said in its report.