February 2017

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.

New York (United Nations), February 28, 2017 - The UN peacekeeping operation department has expressed concerns over the MINURSO (UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) personnel expelled by Morocco, noting that such an obstruction will affect the work of the UN mission. 

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) - 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 (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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

Washington, Feb 25, 2017 (SPS) - About ten US senators and members of the US House of Representatives will pay a visit to the Sahrawi refugee camps on Sunday, Polisario Front's representation and Algerian diplomats in Washington told APS.

Brussels, February 24, 2017 (SPS) -The European Union (EU) should seize the opportunity of Morocco’s accession to the African Union (AU) to reopen negotiations between the Sahrawi authorities and Morocco with a view to resolving the conflict, said EU MP Diane Dodds.