February 2017

Wilaya de Auserd, February 28, 2017 (SPS) -  Participants in the international sporting event, Sahara Marathon 2017, organized a solidarity meeting with the prisoners of Gdeim Izik and all the Saharawi detainees jailed in Morocco.
All the interventions demanded the unconditional release of Sahrawi political prisoners, denouncing the unjust trials to which they were subjected unjustly by the authorities of the Moroccan occupation.

Smara (Sahrawi refugee camps), February 28, 2017 (SPS) -  The international Western Sahara marathon, which kicked off Tuesday, in the province of Al Ayun (Refugee camps) is a bearer of deep meanings in the Sahrawi people’s revolutionary journey.
It is both “a message of peace from the Sahrawi people to the world,” and “a battle front for freedom,” said the Sahrawi minister of Youth and Sports Ahmed Lahbib.

Lusaka (Zambia), February 28, 2017 - Zambia did not withdraw its recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), said the Zambian ministry of Foreign Affairs, bringing an official denial to the information published by the Moroccan Press Agency (MAP), relayed by media.

Paris, February 28, 2017 - The French Association of Friends of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic said Monday in Paris "41 years of struggle, exile and determination (...) it's too long" for the Sahrawi people, who are waiting to exercise their right to self-determination.
 
"Forty-one years of struggle, exile and determination to exercise their (Sahrawi people) right to self-determination and independence, it's too long," said the Association on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the SADR Proclamation.
 

Smara (Refugees Camps), Feb 27, 2017 (SPS) - Sahrawi president and Polisario Front General Secretary Brahim Ghali said that the announcement of Morocco to withdraw its troops from Western Sahara’s Al Guergarat region was a maneuver and a diversion.
He added that the Moroccan occupier should assume the impacts of its colonial practices that may compromise the ceasefire.

Smara (refugee camps), Feb 27, 2017 (SPS) - Sahrawi President and Secretary General of the Polisario Front Brahim Ghali affirmed Monday that the Sahrawi State is now “an irrevocable national, regional and international reality,” adding that the Sahrawi people are more committed to freedom and sovereignty of their State on its territories.

Smara (Refugee Camps), Feb 27, 2017 (SPS) - The Saharawi State, 41 years after the proclamation of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), has made big steps in its building and the creation of its political, security and administrative institutions, making of the Polisario Front, the nucleus of the State, an enlightening model among the liberation movements worldwide. 

Smara, 27 Feb 2017 (SPS) The festivities celebrating the 41st anniversary of the proclamation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) began on Monday in Smara with wide international participation.
These festivities began with the raising of the national flag and the singing of the national anthem "Ana Errafik el Moustahel", first performed in Bir Lahlou after the SADR proclamation on February 27, 1976, following the departure of the last Spanish soldier from the Saharawi territories.

Smara (Refugee Camps), Feb 27, 2017 (SPS) – The US Congressional Delegation chaired by Senator James Inhofe on visit to the Sahrawi refugee camps reaffirmed Sunday in Smara" its constant position" and continued support to the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination.
It’s necessary that the U.S. work to end the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara, it added.

Smara (refugee camps)-Speaker of the Sahrawi Parliament Khatri Addouh stressed Sunday "the recognition of the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination contributes to strengthening peace, security, coexistence and integration in the region."
"The recognition of the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination will lay the foundations of peace, security, coexistence and integration in the region," said Addouh in a meeting with a US Congressional delegation led by James Inhofe to the Sahrawi refugee camps in Smara.

Shaheed El-Hafed (refugee camps), 27 Feb 2017 (SPS) The President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, received on Sunday a delegation from the US Congress led by Senator Jim Inhofe on inspection visit to the Sahrawi refugee camps.

Algiers, Feb 27, 2017 (SPS) – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has sent a message of congratulations to Sahrawi President Brahim Ghali on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the Proclamation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), in which he reaffirmed Algeria's willingness to "pursue its efforts to allow the Sahrawi people exercise its right to self-determination through a free and fair message."

Shaheed Al-Hafed (Refugee Camps), Feb 27, 2017 (SPS) - The chairperson of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma addressed a message of congratulations to the Sahrawi president Brahim Ghali on the occasion of the proclamation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), affirming her determination “to strength peace in the region.”
Dlamini-Zuma expressed “her sincere and warm congratulations” to the Sahrawi government and people, adding her wishes for “peace, prosperity and progress.”

Shaheed El-Hafed (Refugee Camps), Feb 27, 2017 (SPS) - National Secretariat of the Polisario Front has expressed Saharawi side's wish to cooperate with the new secretary general of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, for the completion of decolonization in Western Sahara, to restore peace and stability in the region.

Shaheed El-Hafed (refugee camps), Feb 27,2017 (SPS) - Mexican President Pena Nieto sends a message to Sahrawi President Brahim Ghali on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the proclamation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), in which he expressed his strong willingness to strengthen friendship ties and cooperation between the two countries.

Algiers, Feb 26, 2017 (SPS) - President of the Sahrawi Petroleum and Mining Authority, Ghali Zbeir, revealed Saturday in Algiers the extent of Morocco plundering of the Sahrawi resources, notably phosphate and fishery products.
He warned against the continuing complicity of certain foreign companies despite the binding ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

New York, Feb 26, 2017 (SPS) -The Polisario Front has informed the UN Secretary General Antonio Guteress of the risks resulting from stalemate in the peace process and the fraught situation prevailing in the buffer zone of Alguergarat.
Representative of the Polisario Front Ahmed Boukhari held talks Friday at the UN headquarters with the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, to whom he handed a message from Sahrawi President Brahim Ghali on the dangerous deadlock in the UN process since many years, Sahrawi representation in New York told APS Friday.

Shahid El-Hafed (refugee camps), 26 Feb 2017 (SPS) A Cuban delegation led by Cuban ambassador to SADR Raul Barzaga Navas is on a working visit to the Saharawi Republic.

Shaheed El-Hafed, 25 Feb 2017 (SPS) The new UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, received Friday at the UN headquarters in New York, the representative of the Polisario Front, Boukhari Ahmed, who handed him an "urgent" from the President of the Republic, Brahim Ghali, indicated a staement of the Ministry of Information.

Shaheed El-Hafed (Refugee Camps), Feb 25, 2017 (SPS) - The President of the Republic and Secretary - General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Gali, received a congratulatory message from the President of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela Rodríguez, on the occasion of the 41st Anniversary of the proclamation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).