Madrid, April 19, 2018 (SPS) - A specialized Spanish medical team has just visited the Sahrawi refugee camps to perform surgeries and treat kidney diseases, the Andalusian health service said.
This 19th Andalusian medical mission from this Spanish region will continue until 24 April.
The mission also includes various drugs and equipment necessary for surgeries, added the source.
Paris, April 18, 2018 (SPS) – Dozens of French demonstrators have condemned on Tuesday their government support to the Moroccan regime occupation of the Saharawi people during a solidarity sit-in with French activist Claude Mangin-Asfari after being prevented from visiting her husband,.
Abuja (Nigeria), April 18, 2018 (SPS) - the President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali has received a message of condolences from the Nigerian Movement for the Liberation of Western Sahara following the tragic military aircraft crash of the Algerian plane where 257 passengers, among them Sahrawis, lost their lives.
Orly (France), April 18, 2018 (SPS) – Member of SADR Friendship Association in France and wife of one of the Saharawi political prisoners of the group of Gdeim Izik, Claude Mangin-Asfari has declared Tuesday in a statement that she will initiate an unlimited hunger strike starting today, Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Bir Lehlou, April 17, 2018 (SPS) - The Frente POLISARIO has called on the Security Council to use its authority to urge Morocco to engage seriously and constructively in the political process, to respect the terms of the ceasefire and Military Agreement No. 1, and to desist from taking any action that may increase tension in the region and threaten its stability and security, in information note, a copy of which obtained by SPS
Brussels, April 16, 2018 (SPS) - The Polisario Front condemns the EU Council’s decision on Monday to authorize the European Commission to negotiate an amendment to the EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement in order to explicitly include Western Sahara, in violation of the decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
The condemnation was expressed in a communiqué by Polisario Front representative to Brussels.
BY MAKWAIYA 13 APRIL 2018
IN the intervening period, we have been mourning the passing away of the mother of the South African nation, Winnie Mandela. But not many people know about the family of Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, left behind. More importantly, the mould of those children and grandchildren in terms of political outlook is not much in the limelight. I, for one, had a pleasant surprise the other day when I came across an item online that was actually a formal letter to the King of Morocco.
Bir-Lehlu (Liberated Territories), April 15, 2018 (SPS) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has affirmed that Morocco has undertaken during the last days, an unprecedented frenetic media and diplomatic disinformation campaign in a maneuver that aims to distort the reality of the facts on the ground and create confusion within public opinion.
In this regard, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the following Memorandum on Moroccan allegations regarding the buffer zone:
Brussels, April 14, 2018 (SPS) - The Sahrawi community in Belgium organized Friday afternoon a rally in Brussels to alert the European Union (EU) to the “critical” situation of the Sahrawi prisoners of Gdeim Izik group, detained in Morocco, and demand their release.
At the European district, headquarters of the European institutions, the demonstrators shouted “freedom of the Sahrawi political prisoners” and “No alternative to referendum on self-determination,” at the call of the association of the Sahrawi community in Belgium.
Moscow, April 13, 2018 (SPS) - Russia expressed support for the mediatory efforts of the UN aiming the settlement of Western Sahara dispute, underlining that “there are no alternatives to a political settlement of the Western Sahara problem in line with corresponding UN Security Council resolutions.”
Australia, April 12, 2018 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali, has Wednesday received a message of condolences from Australia Western Sahara Association following the military aircraft crash yesterday resulting in 257 people dead, including 10 crew members and thirty Sahrawi patients.
Brussels, April 12, 2018 (SPS) - President of the European Coordinating Conference of Support to the Sahrawi People (EUCOCO) Pierre Galand paid Tuesday tribute to the “exemplary struggle” of the Sahrawi people for the respect of their fundamental rights and permanent sovereignty over their natural resources.
Nouakchott, April 12, 2018 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali, has Wednesday received a message of condolences from the President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Mr. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz following the military aircraft crash yesterday resulting in 257 people dead, including 10 crew members and thirty Sahrawi patients.
Bir Lahlou (Liberated Areas), April 12, 2018 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali, has Wednesday sent a message of condolence to his Algerian counterpart, President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika following the military aircraft crash, which occurred Wednesday morning near the air base of Boufarik .
Algiers, April 10, 2018 (SPS) - Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdelkader Messahel underlined Tuesday, in an interview with France 24, that there is no alternative to negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front for the settlement of the conflict of Western Sahara.
Moscow, Apr 10, 2018 (SPS) - The Saharawi question and its latest political and security developments will be on the agenda of the visit, Tuesday in Moscow, of a delegation of the Frente POLISARIO, said Monday the Saharawi representative in Russia.
Shaheed El-Hafed (refugee camps), April 7, 2018 (SPS) - The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Western Sahara, Head of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), Colin Stewart, was Friday received by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Salem Hamada, at the MFA headquarters.
Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), April 7, 2018 (SPS) - The Frente Polisario has taken note with satisfaction of the report on Western Sahara the United Nations Secretary-General has submitted to the Security Council late March, reiterating commitment to the peace process and support to the UN efforts to reach a peaceful solution that provides for the self-determination to the Saharawi people.
Algiers, April 7, 2018 (SPS) - The question of Western Sahara is a question of decolonization, as was the case for Algeria during the war for independence, an authorized source of the Foreign Ministry told APS on Thursday. "The Sahrawi question is recognized as such by the United Nations, since the inscription of this territory on the non-self-governing-territories list in 1963."
Paris, April 06, 2018 (SPS) - The lives of the five Sahrawi prisoners, on the 27th day of unlimited hunger strike in Moroccan prisons, "are in danger," warned the Association of Friends of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (AA-RASD), urging Morocco to abide by the international humanitarian law.
"Five Sahrawi political prisoners are on unlimited hunger strike in Moroccan jails since 27 days to demand the respect for their human rights; It is urgent to support them," said the French association.