New York, April 16, 2016 (SPS) - On April 18, 2016, Cornell Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic (New York, USA) will spotlight the fight for self-determination in Western Sahara—often referred to as Africa’s last colony, on Monday, April 18, 2016, at 1:25 – 2:25 Eastern Standard Time, at Cornell Law School, Myron Taylor Hall, Room 277, the organizers have indicated in a statement.

Paris, April 16, 2016 (SPS) - Many Sahrawi nationals held Saturday in Paris a sit-in in Trocadero (Paris) near Morocco’s embassy in France to denounce “oppression” exerted by Moroccan authorities on the Sahrawi people since 40 years.
Raising the flag of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), demonstrators chanted “No alternative to self-determination,” while denouncing the “oppression” exerted by Moroccan authorities against the Sahrawi people “in complicity” with France. 

Madrid (Spain), April 16, 2016 (SPS) - Hundreds of Spaniards representing organizations and political parties backing Saharawi people expressed Saturday, in Madrid, their "unfailing  support" to the Saharawis, who have been struggling against Moroccan occupation, for more than 40 years, to "recover independence and their basic rights in line with the international legality."

Djanet (Algeria), April 16, 2016 (SPS) - A regional conference on “developments of the Sahrawi cause” will be held Sunday in Djanet (Ilizi), Algeria, by the National Algerian Committee of solidarity with Western Sahara” to “assess the latest developments of this issue and security challenges resulting from these developments,” according to organizers.

Shaheed El Hafed, April 16, 2016 (SPS) – The Ministry of Occupied Territories and Community Abroad sent Saturday a message of condolences to the family of Shaheed Ibrahim Sikka who died Friday in the Moroccan city of Agadir as a result of torture by the Moroccan security forces.
The Ministry presented the condolences to the family on behalf of the Sahrawi government and people, considering their son as a hero who was a symbol for courage and defiance against Moroccan occupation.

Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), April 16, 2016 (SPS)- President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, urged the United Nations to take “concrete measures” regarding the “dangerous developments” in Western Sahara to enable the Sahrawi people to exercise their right to self-determination on the basis of a “fair and democratic” solution.

Agadir (Morocco), April 15, 2016 (SPS) – the Sahrawi prisoners Brahim Sikka died on Friday in Agadir, after his health deteriorated due to torture inflicted upon him by Moroccan jails’adminstration , reported source from the Ministry of the Occupied Territories and Communities Abraod .
 

Lusaka (Zambia), April 15, 2016 (SPS) – the Secretary General of the Sahrawi  Women Union, Ms. Fatima Mahdi, participated today in the works of an extraordinary session of the Standing Committee of Economic, Social and Cultural Council "ECOSOC" in the capital of Zambia to Lusaka.

Madrid (Spain) April 15, 2016 (SPS) - the parliamentary group "Peace for the Saharawi people" in the Spanish Parliamant  requested on Thursday the Spanish government to assumes its responsibility for "the settlement of the conflict in Western Sahara by working to organize" free and democratic referendum on self-determination which expresses the will of the Saharawi people. "
 

Geneva (Switzerland), April 15, 2016 (SPS) - Minister of Foreign Affairs and member of the National Secretariat, Mr.Mohamed Salem Ould Salek called Thursday the United Nations Security Council to set a specific date for the referendum in Western Sahara and to ensure that MINURSO exercise its full competences and all its political, civil, administrative and military components.