December 2020

Moscow (Algeria), 20 December 2020 (SPS) - Former Algerian diplomat and UN envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi,  put forward the key role of the United Nations in the settlement of conflicts in the world, stressing the need for the appointment of UN envoys to Western Sahara.
In an interview with Russia Today, Brahimi said he deeply regretted the failure, to date, of the negotiations between the two parties to the conflict (Morocco and Polisario Front), highlighting the constant calls for a return to UN-sponsored negotiations for a mutually agreed settlement.

Bir Lahlou (SADR Liberated Territories), Dec 31, 2020 (SPS) - The Sahrawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) fighters continued intense strikes on the enemy entrenchments along its wall of humiliation and shame, causing significant damages, according to military communiqué No. 49 of the National Ministry of Defense. 

The strikes of SPLA fighters targeted the following positions of the enemy army:Tuesday December 29 :

Algiers,  Dec 28,  2020 (SPS) – Frente POLISARIO's representative to France, Mohamed Sidati, said the Saharwi people embarked, since November 13, in a second war of liberation, following Morocco's aggression against Saharawi civilians, stressing UN Security Council's recent strong message to the United States and the Moroccan occupier which attempt to derail the decolonization process.

Shaheed El-Hafed, 28 December 2020 (SPS) - Sahrawi government has warned against the dangers that would result from the policies of the Moroccan colonizer and its reprisals against unarmed Sahrawi civilians in the occupied territories, inviting the international community to exert pressure on the colonizer to stop vindictively targeting Sahrawi citizens.

Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), 28 December 2020 (SPS) - The units of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) continued, Saturday and Sunday, their attacks targeting the bases and positions of the Moroccan occupation forces along the wall of shame in the area of El-Guerguerat, the Saharawi Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

Washington, 28 December 2020 (SPS) - Moroccan researcher and professor specialized in the matter of conflict settlement in the US University George Mason, Mohammed Cherkaoui said he was the subject of "smear campaign and threats" because of his position on the outgoing US President Donald Trump announcement on Western Sahara.
"Over the last weeks, individuals have been hired or have designated themselves to morally assassinate Mohammed Cherkaoui," said former member of UN Committee of Experts on Facebook.

Algiers, 28 December 2020 (SPS) - A food aid caravan for the Sahrawi refugees will head on 7 January for the refugee camps in Tindouf, announced Saturday representatives of the civil society and the National Union of Algerian Farmers (UNPA) in a solidarity sit-in with the Sahrawi people at the headquarters of the Sahrawi embassy in Algiers.

Algiers, 28 December 2020 (SPS) - SADR’s ambassador to Algeria Abdelkader Taleb Omar affirmed Saturday that the military strikes against the positions of the Moroccan forces “continue and will not stop, until the Sahrawi people obtain the liberation of their territories,” underlining that Morocco tries to hide these realities on the ground to “mislead those with which it wants to concluded political and economic agreements in the region.”

Occupied El Aiun, 26 December 2020 (SPS) - The committee of the families of the 15 kidnapped Sahrawi people has attributed, to the Moroccan occupation authorities, the full and direct responsibility over the disappearing of their children since 25 December 2005, demanding that they reveal where they, as well as the other missing Sahrawi people (victims of forced disappearance) are detained.

Madrid (Spain), 26 December 2020 (SPS) - The League of Sahrawi Journalists and Writers in Europe has strongly condemned the barbaric aggression against Sahrawi activists in occupied El Aiun and Boudjdour by Moroccan occupation forces, expressing its unconditional solidarity with all the victims of Morocco's machine of repression.

Algiers, 26 December 2020 (SPS) - Representative of the Polisario Front in France Mohamed Sidati underlined Thursday that the recent proclamation of the outgoing US president Donald Trump, to recognize the alleged Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara in return for the normalization of relations with the Moroccan system and Israel, is extremely serious and has never happened before, lamenting an “international robbery” aimed at destabilizing the region. 

Bir Lehlu (Sahrawi Republic), Dec 24, 2020 (SPS) - The Sahrawi National Commission for Human Rights (CONASADH) condemned the repression suffered by Sahrawi protesters in the occupied city of El Aaiún, capital of Western Sahara.

Brussels Dec 24, 2020 (SPS) - Expert of European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Hugh Lovatt, affirmed that the European Union should not build its relationship with Morocco at the expense of Sahrawi people and its commitments in regard to international law, "especially since this is likely to undermine European policy in such situations of occupation and forced annexation."

New York, Dec 23, 2020 (SPS) - The Representative of the Frente POLISARIO in the United Nations, Dr. Sidi Mohamed Omar, affirmed today that “there is a consensus among all the members of the Security Council on the legal status of the issue of Western Sahara, which represents a positive position that serves the political resolution of the conflict in Western Sahara ”.

Algiers, 21 December 2020 (SPS) - Sahrawi Foreign Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Salek said Monday the UN Security Council stopped short of imposing a solution to the conflict in Western Sahara, becoming with MINURSO (UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) a "part of the problem."

New York (United Nations), 21 December 2020 (SPS) - UN Security Council will hold Monday a meeting on Western Sahara against the background of the resumption of fighting between the Polisario Front and Morocco, and outgoing US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Morocco's alleged sovereignty over the Sahrawi territory.

Sydney, 21 December 2020 (SPS) - Representative of the Polisario Front in Australia and New Zealand Kamal Fadel on Saturday urged the US President elect Joe Biden to revoke the unilateral decision taken by Donald Trump on Morocco’s alleged sovereignty over Western Sahara.
“Western Sahara’s Polisario Front wants US President-elect Joe Biden to reverse a decision by incumbent President Donald Trump to recognise Morocco’s claim of sovereignty over the disputed territory,” Kamal told RFI.

Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), 20 December 2020 (SPS) - The units of the Saharawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) continued Sunday their attacks targeting the bases and positions of the Moroccan occupation forces along the wall of shame in the area of El-Guerguerat, the Saharawi Defense Ministry said in a communiqué.

Oslo (Norway) December 20, 2020 (SAPS) - Norway Foreign Affairs Minister Ine Eriksen reaffirmed that her government stance on Western Sahara issue remains “firm and clearly known” for both parties to the conflict, namely a political solution in conformity with the resolutions of the UN Security Council.

Geneva, 20 December 2020 (SPS) - The representative of the Polisario Front in Switzerland, Omeima Mahmoud Abdel Salam, stressed that the unilateral decision of the outgoing U.S. President, Donald Trump, to recognize the alleged sovereignty of Morocco in Western Sahara, "will not affect the national resistance of the Saharawi people and its struggle for independence and freedom".