August 2017

Madrid, August 16,  2017 (SPS) - The Saharawi Community in Europe expressed its solidarity and support to the father and fighter Deide El-Yazid and his family members, saying that they have been subjected to brutal aggression as part of the systematic policy of occupation aimed at suppressing and torturing Sahrawi activists.
The Sahrawi Community Office in a statement issued on Monday called on Saharawi masses to unity, and cooperation.

Bir Lahlou (liberated territories) August, 2017 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali, sent a message of condolences to his Sierra Leonean counterpart, President, Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma, following the terrible floods that stuck the city of Freetown.

Algiers (Algeria), August 15, 2017 (SPS) - The Speaker of the Saharawi National Council (Parliament), member of the National Secretariat of the Frente  POLISARIO, Jatri Adduh, affirmed at his conference 'The contribution of the Saharawi solution in the promotion of security and stability in the region, "organized by the forum of the Algerian newspaper" Achaab "that" the continuation of the blockade of the Western Sahara conflict is a danger to regional and international security. "

Boumerdas (Algeria), August 15, 2017 (SPS) - The expert on strategic and security issues and president of the Algerian-African Committee for Peace and Reconciliation, Ahmed Mizab, affirmed at his conference at the University of Summer for the POLISARIO, SADR officials, that the looting by Morocco of Saharawi natural resources violates the principles established by the United Nations.

Bir Lehlu, August 15, 2017 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Brahim Gali, conveyed his condolences to the President of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, following the terrorist attack on a restaurant in the capital Ouagadougou, which caused casualties between dead and injured.

Algiers, August 14, 2017 (SPS) - Western Sahara ambassador to Algiers and representatives of Algerian and Sahrawi women's associations and organizations, said Sunday that the Sahrawi question was going through a "sensitive and crucial" stage.
This stage requires “regional and international measures to put pressure on Morocco and bring it to comply with international legality, while calling for new mechanisms to make known the resistance and the struggle of the Sahrawi woman.”

Bir-Lehlu, August 14, 2017 (SPS) – President of Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, sent a congratulatory message to His Excellency Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, on the occasion of his re-election as the President of the Republic of Kenya.

Bir-lehlu (Liberated Zones), 13 August 2017 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, has drawn attention of the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, to the gravity of the situation resulting from the Moroccan mock trial of Saharawi civilians known as the prisoners of Gdeim Izik group, and the unfair sentences issued against them, ranging from 20 years in prison to life imprisonment.

Boumerdes (Algeria), August 13, 2017 (SPS) - Lawyers taking part in the 8th Summer Conference of the Officials of the Polisario Front and the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) stressed Saturday, in Boumerdes (50-lm east of Algiers), the need for Western Sahara people to redouble efforts and use all possible means, on every level (human, legal, cultural, sports and military), to win world public opinion.

Boumerdes (Algeria) August 12, 2017 (SPS) - The participants in Summer University of the Executives of the Polisario Front and the SADR organized today, Saturday, a solidarity sit-in with Sahrawi Father Deida Ould Al-Yazid and his family, who were assaulted by the Moroccan forces in front of their home in the occupied city of El-Aaiun.

Shaheed El-Hafed, August 12, 2017 (SPS) - The Association of Families of Saharawi Prisoners and Disappeared (AFAPREDESA), called on the international society for creation of an international committee to investigate the repression committed by Morocco against Father Deida Ould Al-Yazid And his family in the occupied city of El-Aaiun.

Boumerdes (Algeria), August 12, 2017 (SPS) – Sahrawi Prime Minister, Abdelkader Taleb Omar, said Thursday in Boumerdes, that the status quo "still persists in Western Sahara" due to the "Moroccan regime’s political one-upmanship, “and the "Sahrawi people cannot remain inactive forever."

Bir-Lehlu, August 11, 2017 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, sent a congratulatory letter to the President of Chad, Idriss Deby Into, on the occasion of the anniversary of the independence of Chad.
The President of the Republic, on behalf of the Saharawi people, the SADR government and on his own behalf, congratulated his counterpart and the brotherly people of the Republic of Chad, which is celebrating the anniversary of its independence."

Boumerdes (Algeria), August 11, 2017 (SPS) - Several Algerian political parties and members of the diplomatic corps accredited to Algeria expressed their support and solidarity with the Saharawi cause, at the opening ceremony of the Summer University of the SADR Executives, which started Thursday in the Algerian town of Boumerdes.

Bir-Lehlu (Liberated Territories), August 11, 2017 (SPS) - Sahrawi National Committee of Human Rights (CONASADH), has moved to Tifariti, in the Liberated Territories of the Saharawi Republic, in order to visit the detention center where the 19 Moroccan drug traffickers are detained, according to a statement of the Committee.   

Boumerdas (Algeria), August 10, 2017 (SPS) - The Prime Minister, Member of the National Secretariat of the Frente POLISARIO, Abdelkader Taleb Omar, said today at the opening of the 8th edition of the Summer University for SADR cadres said That "Algeria's hosting of this event reflects the solid relationship and solidarity between the peoples and cadres of both countries at all levels," stating that such solidarity "is based on respect for the sovereignty of peoples and their right to defend their freedom and dignity.These principles are the basis for the construction of a Maghreb that unite

Boumerdes (Algeria), Aug 10, 2017 (SPS) - Work of the 8th edition of the Summer University of cadres of the Frente POLISARIO and Saharawi Republic (SADR) opened today morning in the Province of Boumerdes, Algeria, in the presence of 440 participants , along to representatives of civil society and international figures pro self-determination of peoples.

Bremen (Germany), August 09, 2017 (SPS) – the German Committee of Friendship with the Saharawi people has expressed its deep deep and sincere solidarity with the Gdeim Izik prisoners and the Sahrawi people after the recent disastrous verdicts against 23 Sahrwai human rights activist ranging from 20 years to life imprisonment, in statement a copy of which obtained by SPS

Londa (Italy), August 09, 2017 (SPS) - The Italian town of Londa and the Sahrawi Daire Legüera, belonging to Auserd, sign a twinning agreement to strengthen relations between the two peoples, according to to SPS source from Italy.
The memorandum signed by the mayor of the Italian town and representative of Legüera, includes the implementation of humanitarian projects, aimed at strengthening educational, sanitary and agricultural facilities, as well as the exchange of experiences and visits between both municipalities.

Junín (Peru), August 09, 2017 (SPS) - The Saharawi Ambassador in Special Mission in Peru, Jadiyetu El Mojtar Sidahmed took part in the commemoration of the 193rd anniversary of the Battle of Junin in Peru - an event before the Battle of Ayacucho where the freedom of America was concretized, according to a press release from the Association for Life and Global Peace, ASVIPAZ.