March 2020

Algiers. Mar 05. 2020 (SPS) - The Chairman of the Algerian Foreign Affairs Committee, Cooperation and Abroad Community at the National People's Congress, Abdelkader Abdellaoui, examined on Tuesday with the Chair of the European Affairs Committee in the Danish Parliament, Eva Kjer Hansen, several questions and files, in particular the Sahrawi and Palestinian causes and the situation in the Sahel, indicates a press release from the AFN -Algerian -.

Blida, March 05, 2020 (SPS) - Sahrawi students in Algeria expressed, on Sunday in Blida, their attachment to the fight to wrest their right to liberty and independence and recover the sovereignty of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (RASD) across all of its territories.

Vienna (Austria), March 05, 2020 (SPS) - Saharawi activist Hayat Haimuda held important meetings with European parliamentarians, political party leaders and humanitarian organizations in the framework of her working visit to Austria, with the presence of the Saharawi representative in Austria Mohamed Mamun Ahmed Brahim.
Activist Hayat struggling to break the silence about what is happening in the occupied areas of Western Sahara was invited by the Austrian Association of Solidarity with the Saharawi people.

Auckland (New Zealand) 05 Marsh 2020 (SPS)- Polisario Front Representation in Australia and New Zealand declared in a Press Release this Thursday that the Front has initiated a legal case before New Zealand High Court against New Zealand Superannuation Fund, for its investment in imports of illegally mined and imported phosphates from the occupied territories of Western Sahara.

Chahid El-Hafed, March 04, 2020 (SPS) - The Ministry of Public Health of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic has announced that it will strengthen preventive actions against the international alert for coronavirus (COVID19).

Havana (Cuba), March 03, 2020 (SPS) - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, has received Monday the Ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Malainin Etkana, to whom he expressed the satisfaction for the relations that unite the two peoples and government.
"We note with satisfaction the strengthening of the bilateral ties and the historical relations of friendship that unite us," said Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla after receiving the Saharawi ambassador in Havana.

Chahid El Hafed, March 03, 2020 (SPS) - Units of the Saharawi People's Liberation Army thwarted on Sunday an attempt to smuggle an estimated 725 kg of cannabis hashish from the Moroccan-occupied territories of Western Sahara, near the Moroccan military Wall of shame in the Auserd region, according to a source from the Ministry of Defense.
"The operation took place thanks to patrols carried out by units of the Saharawi People's Liberation Army based near the wall to protect the liberated Saharawi territories and restore security," the source added.

Geneva, 2 March 2020 (SPS) - An appeal to the UN Human Rights Council was launched, at a meeting in Geneva organized by the "Geneva Group in Support of Western Sahara" (GGSSO), to send commissions of inquiry into the occupied territories of Western Sahara and to act upon the serious violations committed by the Moroccan occupation regime against the Sahrawi people.

Algiers,  2 March 2020 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, has received a congratulatory message from his Algerian counterpart, H.E. Abdelmajid Tebboune, on the occasion of the 44th anniversary of the proclamation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

Geneva, 1 March 2020 (SPS) - Sahrawi activist Aminatou Haidar called on the UN Human Rights Commission to send inquiry commissions to the occupied areas of Western Sahara and respond to the grave violations committed by the Moroccan occupation against the Sahrawi civilian population.
Attending the 43rd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the 2019 alternative Nobel Prize winner expressed her deep "concern over the sufferings of Western Sahara people who have been militarily occupied by Morocco since 1975".