ChahId Ahmed Abdel-Fattah Paramedical School, August 30, 2018 (SPS) – the Paramedical School of ChahId Ahmed Abdel-Fattah has witnessed Wednesday the opening of the annual training course of Sahrawi Scouts Movement with the presence of a number of members of the National Secretariat and seniors officials of government.
Zaragoza, August 31, 2018 (SPS) -The Moroccan police has prevented on Thursday the entrance in El Aaiún of the lawyers Ana Sebastián and Pablo Jiménez, has informed to EFE a spokesman of the Aragonese Observatory for the Western Sahara, to which the lawyers belong.
they left for El Aaiún to participate in a trial against the Saharawi activist El Fak Khalihenna, something that is usual for this Aragonese entity, dedicated to the defense of human rights in the area.
Brussels, August 31, 2018 (SPS) - the Minister Delegate to Europe, Mr. Mohamed Sidati, was received Thursday by the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament in the presence of several members of the European Parliament from different political spectrum and various actors of interested experts.
Cape Town (South Africa), August 31, 2018 (SPS) - Algeria and South Africa reaffirmed their support for the cause of the Saharawi people at a press conference jointly hosted by Foreign Minister Abdelkader Messahel, and his South African counterpart, Ms. Lindiwe Sisulu.
At the press conference following talks between Messahel and his South African counterpart, Sisulu, said that "South Africa and Algeria remain firm in their support for people of Western Sahara ".
Bir Lehlou, 30 August 2018, the President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali, sent Thursday a letter of congratulation to the President of Trinidad and Tobago, H.E, Paula-Mae Weekes on the 56th anniversary of the Independence Day
Madrid, August 30, 2018 (SPS) - The State Coordinating Committee of Associations in Solidarity with the Sahrawi people (CEAS-Sahara) has demanded in a statement on the occasion of the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances that MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) ensure access to places where there are reports of mass graves or burials of dead or disappeared persons and that independent teams can carry out this identification and return to their families.
Helsinki (Finland), 29, August 2018 (SPS) - The Sahrawi issue has strongly presented at the festival, hosted by Fartia city in Finland held on 25 - 26 August, according to a source from Frente POLISARIO representive to Finland.
The representative of the Frente POLISARIO in Finland, Ms. Menna Lehbib, along with several members of the diplomatic corps accredited in Finland, the Chairman of the Norwegian Committee for Solidarity with the Saharawi People, Mr. Eric Hagen, as well as the President of the Finnish Peace Society.
Occupied Aaiun, 29 August 2018 (SPS) - The Association for the Protection of Sahrawi Prisoners in Moroccan Jails has sounded an terrifying alarm an over the serious health situation of Sahrawi political prisoners who are on hunger strike in Moroccan prisons, especially the prison of Ait Melloul.
Abdel Mawla El Hafedi and Mohamed Dada on hunger strike for more than 38 days, along with thiern political comrade Ali Chargui who spent more than 27 days in his hunger strike
Ait Melloul (Morocco), 28 August 2018 (SPS) - The Sahrawi political prisoner in the Agdeim Izik group, Mohamed Bani was arrested on Monday has begun two days hunger strike.
Mohamed Bani waged hunger strike in protest against the arbitrary measures that the prison administration Ait Melloul 2 has taken against him and his family.
Gienbra, August 29, 2018 (SPS) - The Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions of the United Nations has asked Morocco for the immediate release of Saharawi journalist Mohamed Bambari, member of the Saharawi journalist group Equipe Media, which reported on violations of rights Humans and the struggle for self-determination of the Saharawi people in the occupied city of Dakhla.
The Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions of the United Nations considers that this journalist detained since August 26, 2015 should receive the corresponding medical treatment.
Dakhla (Refugee Camps), August 27, 2018 (SPS) – Secretary General of Sahrawi Students’ Union (UESARIO), Moulay Amhamed Ibrahim Saleh, was re-elected Monday for a second term at the conclusion of the 3rd Congress held in Dakhla, Sahrawi refugee camps.
The congress also elected 8 students as members of the Executive Bureau of the UESARIO: Wali Hamma Salama, Tumana Mohammed Salem, Najem Saeed Ghala, Munir Mohammed Fadel, Aali Mahdi, Amini Meni Wali, Ida Abdo, and Hoda Mohammed Lamine.
Harare (Zimbabwe) August 26, 2018 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, has taken part in the inauguration ceremony of Zimbabwean elected President Emmerson Mnangagwa, held at the national stadium, attended by Heads of State and Government of other African states.
Dakhla (refugee camps) August 26, 2018 (SPS) - The Third International Conference of Solidarity with the Saharawi Students held Saturday in Dakhla, refugee camps, under the theme "the respect of international law for the liberation of the last colony in Africa" called for the intervention of the international community to put an end to the suffering of the Sahrawi people by enabling them to exercise their right to self-determination.
Bir-Lehlu, August 20, 2018 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, issued a presidential decree on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, which includes an amnesty order for a number of prisoners of penal institutions sentenced under the terms of force, said Monday a statement of the Presidency of the Republic.
Shaheed El-Hafed, August 20, 2018 (SPS) - Minister of Economic Development, Adda Brahim Ahmaim, confirmed Sunday that his ministry has put in place all the human and material resources to ensure a successful agricultural season and create the right conditions for a good harvest.
Windhoek (Namibia), August 19, 2018 (SPS) - South Africa will host the Solidarity Conference with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) later this year, according to the final communiqué of the 38th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
SADC Summit, held in Windhoek in the Republic of Namibia August 17-18, stated in its final communiqué that the Solidarity Conference with the Sahrawi Republic will be held in October or November.
El-Aaiun (Occupied Territories), August 18, 2018 (SPS) - Fifteen Saharawi activists have been victims of aggression by Moroccan occupation authorities as soon as they arrived in the airport of the occupied Western Sahara town of El-Aaiun.
The Activists were participating in the ninth Summer University of Polisario Front and SADR (Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic) executives, at the University of Boumerdes (50-km east of Algiers).
Moscow (Russia), August 18, 2018 (SPS) - Russia has expressed supports for the efforts made by the United Nations Secretary General's special envoy for Western Sahara, Horst Kohler, the spokeswoman of the Russian ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said, calling for resumption of the direct negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front, with the participation of Algeria and Mauritania as observers.
Boumerdes (Algeria), August 18, 2018 (SPS) - The minister of the Occupied Territories and Saharawi Community Abroad, Bachir Mustapha Sayed, said Moroccan occupation authorities has transformed the towns of occupied Western Sahara into a "real large prison," where "all kinds of human rights abuses are committed."
Boumerdes (Algeria), August 18, 2018 (SPS) - Morocco, which “does not take any initiative” for a peaceful settlement of the Western Sahara conflict, “cannot continue impeding the UN advocated negotiation process” by imposing same conditions and pursuing the plundering of Western Sahara's wealth, said Wednesday Premier of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Mohamed Ouali Akik.