October 2017

Brasilia, Oct 31, 2017 (SPS) - The Committee for the Independence of Western Sahara has been established in the State of Bahia, as announced today by the Frente POLISARIO representative in Brazil.

The event was preceded by a series of lectures at Universities and meetings of the Frente POLISARIO representative in Brazil Emboirik Ahmed with Social Movements and Trade Unions.

Kuneitra (Morocco), Oct 30, 2017 (SPS) - Sahrawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik group at the central prison of Kuneitra, Morocco, announced that they will initiate a 48-hour hunger strike starting from Wednesday.

London, Oct 29, 2017 (SPS) -The Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) on Saturday released a report in which it shed light on illegal exploration of oil for the second time by the US Company Kosmos Energy near Dakhla (Western Sahara).

Over the past 24 hours, WSRW has observed a resumed seabed exploration north of Dakhla, in the block operated by American oil company Kosmos Energy in collaboration with Scotland's Cairn Energy, WSRW said.

Oudaya local prison (Morocco), Oct 28, 2017 (SPS) – Sahrawi Political prisoner, human rights activist and journalist Abdelmoula El-Hafizi initiated Thursday an limited hunger strike in his cell at Oudaya prison, Marrakech, where he and the rest of the Sahrawi student group are jailed.

Shaheed El-Hafed, Oct 28, 2017 (SPS) - The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) on Friday received a memorandum from the African Union Commission confirming the participation of all African states, without exception, in the 5th African Union-European Union Partnership Summit to be held Abidjan on November 29-30, Côte d'Ivoire, in accordance with the decision of the Executive Board (Council of Foreign Ministers) during its special meeting in Addis Ababa on October 16, indic

Bir Lahlou (liberated territories), Oct 27, 2017 (SPS) -  The representative of the people of Western Sahara, Frente POLISARIO said to be "determined" to defend the sovereign rights of Sahrawi people, following the adoption by the European Parliament of an Agreement on Civil Aviation, under negotiation between the European Union (EU) and Morocco covering the territory of Western Sahara.

Brussels, Belgium, Oct 27 2017 (SPS)-  A delegation of European parliamentarians of the Western Sahara Intergroup in the European Parliament traveled on Friday to the Occupied Zones of Western Sahara.

The delegation of five parliamentarians seeks to examine the human rights situation in the occupied part of Western Sahara and to meet with human rights organizations and representatives of Saharawi civil society in the territory.

Kenitra (Morocco), Oct 27, 2017 (SPS) - Members of the group of Sahrawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik imprisoned in the Moroccan prison of Kenitra on Wednesday began a hunger strike of 48 hours in protest of the terrible conditions in which they are suffering.

New York (UN), Oct 26, 2017 (SPS) - Algeria’s Deputy Representative to the United Nations Mohammed Bessedik said that the UN news centre must be in harmony with the principles of objectivity, ethics and equality that govern the work of the UN organization.

He stressed the need to faithfully report the debates in its press releases.

Stockholm, Sweden, Oct 25, 2017 (SPS) - leader of the Swedish Left Party, Mr. Jonas Khostad has received the Frente POLISARIO representative in Sweden, Dr. Limam Khalil, to whom he has expressed his party principled and firm stance to in supporting the Saharawi people just struggle for self-determination and independence.

Geneva, Oct 25, 2017 (SPS) - the Frente POLISARIO’s coordinator with the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) Mr. KHADDAD met Tuesday with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mr. MAURER, in Geneva.

Algiers, Oct 25, 2017 (SPS) - United Nations Resident Coordinator in Algeria Eric Overvest on Tuesday has called on the international community to increase its aid for Sahrawi refugees.