August 2016

ChahId El Hafed, August 18, 2016 (SPS) -  The heavy rain that was recently hit  the camps of El Aaiun in the Saharawi refugee camps has caused considerable damage to many tents and adobe houses of Saharawi refugees.
 
According to a statement of Saharawi Red Crescent (SRC), rains has left 11 people injured, one of them in serious condition and 6 of them were evacuated to the hospital in the Algerian city of Tindouf.
 

Chahid El Hafed,   August 17, 2016 (SPS) -The Council for Peace and Security of the African Union (AU), recalled, in a meeting, the principles and objectives of the Constitutive Act of the AU adopted by the Conference of State and Government Heads in Lome (Togo) in 2000, urging all States wishing to join the Act must comply with its provisions, a AU statement said Tuesday.
 

Chahid El Hafed,  August 16, 2016 (SPS) - Sahrawi Red Crescent (SRC)  appealed donor countries, international organizations and non-governmental organizations to provide  urgent humanitarian aid to Sahrawi refugees, following the heavy rains witnessed the camps on Monday, especially the Wilayas of El Aaiun an Dakhla.
 
The Saharawi organization recalled in a statement, a copy of which obtained by SPS "donor countries that its food stocks is running out, empty of tents and other equipment. "

Chahed El Hafed, August 16, 2016 (SPS) - The Polisario Front informed Monday head of the UN Mission in Western Sahara "MINURSO" in Tindouf, to transfer its strong protest over a new and flagrant Moroccan violation of ceasefire agreement signed in 1991 between Polisario Front and Morocco.

Bir Lahlu (liberated territories), August 16, 2016 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Gali, said Monday  in a letter sent to the UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon that "the Moroccan forces that penetrate the wall of Karkarat area, supported with transport equipment, military engineering and accompanied with aerial reconnaissance, constitute a new and serious breach of military agreement No.

Wilaya of Awsard (Refugee camps), August 15, 2016 (SPS) – Prime  Minister, Abdelkader Taleb Omar, attended on Sunday the closing ceremony of Youth and Students Program of Summer 2016, in the Wilaya of Awsard, refugee camps, along with members of the National Secretariat and government as well as the regional committee in charge of the program.
In his speech on the occasion, Mr. Taleb Omar praised the efforts exerted by all those in charge of the Youth and Students Program of Summer 2016.

London, August 11, 2016 (SPS)  - The British organization in charge of promoting human rights in Western Sahara "Adala UK" affirmed that Sahrawi unionist Brahim Saika was buried by Moroccan forces without his family's consent, and without explaining the reason of his death, calling for an urgent action from the UN to denounce this "unjustifiable and inhuman act."

Boumerdes (Algeria), August 11, 2016 (SPS)  - The adviser to the presidency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) Lahritani Hocine called Wednesday, from Boumerdes, on the Security Council  to “exert pressure on Morocco for more seriousness in the settlement of the Sahrawi cause.”

London, August 10, 2016 (SPS) - The human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) launched a camping for a fair civil trial for the 23 Sahrawi human rights activists, including 21 detained by the Moroccan occupying forces in the prison of Salé in Rabat, accused in the case known as Gdeim Izik.

Boumerdes (Algeria), August 10, 2016 (SPS) - a professor at the University of Algiers, Dr. Saud Saleh stressed that the cause of the Saharawi people is the issue of the expulsion and decolonization in its lecture entitled "The Importance of lobby groups in the case of Western Sahara as the last colony in Africa" during the second day of the summer University of SARD executives.
 

Bouemrdes, August 10, 2016 (SPS) - Secretary General of the Polisario Front and President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) Brahim Gali called on Tuesday, in Boumerdes, the United Nations Security Council to take “firm and urgent” measures to put an end to the Moroccan escalation in the last African colony.

Chahid El Hafed, August 09, 2016 (SPS) -  The President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Brahim Gali said that the armed fight is not a threat or a political mean of pressure but a national duty for all Sahrawis.
 
“Armed fight is not a threat or a political mean of pressure. It is simply a national duty for all Sahrawis and a right recognized by the United Nations to colonized countries and peoples,” said the Sahrawi president, also Secretary General of the Polisario Front on Monday, in a interview with Italian newspaper La Stampa.

Boumerdes (Algeria), August 09, 2016 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, SG of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Gali oversaw Tuesday the opening session of the University of the Polisario Front and SADR cadres, bearing the name of "Martyr Mohamed Abdelaziz" under the theme of "loyalty to the martyrs" in the presence of the Saharawi Ambassador in Algeria, the Wali of Boumerdes, Mrs.

Montreal (Canada), August 09, 2016 (SPS) - Sahrawi delegation arrived yesterday to the Canadian city of Montreal to participate in the work of the World Social Forum in its 12th edition, which will be kicked off today under the title of "another world is needed, together, it is possible."
 

Shaheed El Hafed, August 08, 2016 (SPS) - The Summer University of the Executives of the Polisario Front and Sahrawi Republic will kick off Tuesday in the Algerian province of Boumerdes, in the presence of 400 Sahrawi civil and military executives, as well as activists of the civil society, occupied territories and southern Morocco.   

Shaheed El Hafed, June 07, 2016 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Ibrahim Ghali, has received a congratulatory letter from the President of the People's National Assembly of Algeria, Dr. Mohamed Larbi Ould Khalifa, on his election.
The president of the Algerian parliament expressed conviction that the excellent experience of struggle that President Ghali has would enable him to continue efforts to defend the right of the self-determination of the Sahrawi people and their interests to the highest levels.

Midrand (Johannesburg), August 6, 2016 (SPS) - The Pan African Parliament (PAP) has called on the United Nations to set a date for the holding of the referendum in Western Sahara to allow the Sahrawi people to decide their own future. 
“Join the African Union in calling on the United Nations to set a date for the holding of the referendum in Western Sahara to allow the people of Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa, to decide on their right to self determination,” said a communiqué sanctioning  the 8th Annual Conference of Speakers of African Parliaments.

Bir Lahlu (liberated territories), August 05, 2016 (SPS) - the Sahrawi National Committee of human rights demanded on Friday all international bodies and human rights organizations and trade unions to exert pressure on the Moroccan authorities to conduct an independent investigation on the circumstances of the assassination Brahim Saika, and to reveal All the circumstances of his death and to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Chahid El Hafed, August 05, 2016 (SPS) - The head of the Summer University of Polisario Front and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic´ executives in its seventh edition, Mr. Mohamed Lamin Bouhali  has asked the participants to develop thier skills and to benefit from Algerian experience in various fields during interview today with Sahrawi National Radio.
 The University will organize from 09 to 22 August with the participation of more than 400 executives, 30 of them coming from the Occupied Territories, said SU head.

Campania (Italy), August 04, 2016 (SPS) - Saharawi children who spend their summer vacation in Italy within the program "Holiday in peace" today were received by the mayor of the Italian city of Campania and a number of representatives of political parties and sympathizers  with the Saharawi people and their just cause.