Occupied Aaiún, Oct 19, 2021 (SPS) - The Saharawi political prisoner and journalist Yehdih Jalihenna Sabi, Director of the El-Guerguerat Media Network, continues on an open hunger strike for the eighth consecutive day as reported by sources from the League for the Protection of Sahrawi Prisoners in Moroccan Prisons.
Dili (East Timor) October 19, 2021 (SPS) - Timor-Leste’s National Parliament in Solidarity with the Saharawi just cause approved a through a vote Monday 18 October 2021 a resolution to constitute a Parliamentary Commission of Support to the Referendum of Self-determination in Western Sahara and to accompany the issue of Western Sahara.
Dakhla (Occupied Territories)- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)'s oil and mines authority has denounced the signing by Rabat, represented by the Moroccan National Office for Hydrocarbons and Mines, of an agreement with Israeli oil company Ratio Petroleum on the exploration of the Atlantic block of the occupied Sahrawi city of Dakhla.
"The agreement is a new step in the series of economic crimes perpetrated by Morocco in the occupied Saharawi territories," the Saharawi oil and mining authority said in a statement.
Bir Lahlou, 18 October 2021 (SPS) - Units of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) launched intensive attacks targeting the Moroccan occupation forces' entrenchment in the sectors of Al-Mahbas, Al-Farsiah, Al-Bakari and Um Adreka, according to military communiqué No. 340 of the Ministry of National Defense.
The communiqué stated that "advanced detachments of SPLA shelled the occupation soldiers in the area of Umaytir Mukhainza, specifically the headquarters of the 43rd Legion in Al-Mahbas sector."
Shahid Al Hafed, 17 October 2021 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, has called on the UN Security Council to set a timetable for the mission of the new UN envoy for Western Sahara, and to provide guarantees for the organization of a self-determination referendum, during a press conference held on Saturday, in the presence of the national and international press, on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of national unity.
Beijing, 16 October 2021 (SPS) - The Chinese phosphate company "Molybdenum" announced in a message to the Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) that it has definitively renounced the acquisition of pillaged phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara.
In 2020, the Observatory tracked the trucks that transported the phosphate rock from the port of Santos (Brazil) to a closed industrial zone, the WSRW said in a statement published on its website.
Washington, 16 October 2021 (SPS) - The Polisario Front representative in the United States, Mouloud Saeed, expressed on Thursday his satisfaction with the letter addressed by ten American senators to the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, in which they questioned him on the human rights situation in Western Sahara.
Dili (Timor-Leste), 14 October 2021 (SPS) - The Saharawi Republic (S.A.D.R) Ambassador to Timor-Leste, Mr. Malainin Abba met today with Mr. Daniel Santos do Carmo, Executive Director of Timor-Leste NGOs Forum (FONGTIL), who expressed Timor-Leste NGOs Forum (FONGTIL), which is an Umbrella NGO that encompass 237 NGOs in Timor-Leste firm solidarity and support to the struggle of the Saharawi people to exercise their right to complete Self-determination.
New York (United Nations), 13 October 2021 (SPS) - UN Security Council meets Wednesday for consultations on the situation in Western Sahara, the first such meeting since the appointment of UN secretary general's special envoy Staffan de Mistura.
This first closed-door briefing, taking place in a context of return to the state of war in Western Sahara, will be led by MINURSO chief, Alexander Ivanko, and the deputy secretary general for Africa at the United Nations Department of Peace Operations (DPO), Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee.
Wilaya de Dajla, October 13, 2021 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali, said “the consequences of the renewed war between the Frente POLISARIO and Morocco After the latter's violation of the ceasefire will affect the entire region if the UN continues to manage the conflict instead of resolving it ”.
Bir Lehlu , October 13, 2021 (SPS) - The units of the Saharawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) launched new attacks against the Moroccan occupation forces positioned in the sectors of Auserd, Farsía and Mahbes.
According to War Report No. 335 released by the Ministry of National Defense, Tuesday, units of our army carried out intense bombardments that caused fear and panic in the ranks of enemy soldiers positioned in the following regions:
New York, Oct 13, 2021 (SPS) - Western Sahara is a case of decolonization and illegal military occupation, pleaded the petitioners, defenders of the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people at the Fourth UN Commission.
They deplored the absence of protection mechanisms for Saharawi citizens due to Morocco's refusal to allow observers to access the occupied territories.
Wilaya of Dakhla, Oct 13, 2021 (SPS) - The president of the Federation of Institutions for Solidarity with Western Sahara (Fedissah), Carmelo Ramirez, said Tuesday at the Dakhla camp in Saharawi refugees that the United Nations must ensure respect for the individual and collective rights of the Saharawi people.
Algiers, 12 October 2021 (SPS) - Special Envoy in charge of Western Sahara and Maghreb countries Amar Belani on Tuesday dubbed “insane” and “irresponsible” the statements made by the Moroccan occupation authorities about the aggression committed in November against the Sahrawi territory of El Guerguerat, urging the UN Security Council to “assume its political and moral responsibilities” in order to guarantee the Sahrawi people’s inalienable right to self-determination.
Bir Lehlu (Sahrawi Republic), Oct 12, 2021 (SPS) - The units of the Saharawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) attacked the Moroccan military base No. 19 located in the Adeim Um Ajlud region, in the Auserd sector on Monday, according to War Report No: 334 issued by the Ministry of National Defense.
The War Report also reported that our army units bombed various enemy positions in the Gararat Lahdid region, in the Farsia sector.
New York (United States), Oct 12, 2021 (SPS) - The Representative of the Frente POLISARIO at the UN, Dr. Sidi Mohamed Omar, met Saturday with Mr. Alexander Ivanko, Special Representative of the Secretary UN General for Western Sahara.
The meeting, held at the headquarters of the United Nations General Secretariat, represented an opportunity for both parties to address the latest developments regarding the role of the United Nations Mission for the referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) and the position of the Frente POLISARIO on this role.
Occupied Aaiún, Oct 12, 2021 (SPS) - The Sahrawi politician Sid-Albachir Alali Butenguiza, who is in the Kenitra jail, north of Morocco, entered this Monday on a 24-hour warning hunger strike hours in protest of the medical negligence and the failure to fulfill the promises made by the prison authorities to attend to his deteriorating state of health.SPS
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Wilaya de Dajla, Oct 12, 2021 (SPS) - The Saharawi people celebrate this Tuesday, October 12, the 46th Anniversary of National Unity amid circumstances characterized by the resumption of the armed struggle, since the Moroccan violation of the ceasefire established since 1991.
Wilaya de Dajla, Oct 12, 2021 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali, affirmed that “national unity made the dirty colonial maneuvers to erase the Sahrawi people of existence”.
During his speech at the said event, the President declared “of course, if that meeting frustrated the despicable and imminent colonial maneuvers that sought to definitively eliminate the Saharawi people, as people and as a country ”.
Belgrade (Serbia), 11 October 2021 (SPS) - Prime Minister of Algeria, Minister of Finance Aïmene Benabderrahmane welcomed Monday, in Belgrade, the “consistent and principled” position of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in favor of the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination, calling on the United Nations and the Security Council to revive the UN process for the settlement of Western Sahara conflict.