[SPS]Shaheed Hafed -Polisario Front called on the United Nations' Security Council to ensure the protection of Sahrawi detainees in Moroccan prisons, underlining their dramatic situation, in a communiqué issued at the end of the ninth session of the Polisario Front's national secretariat....
[SPS]La Paz -The participants at Sao Paulo Forum, attended by 60 political parties and social movements from all Latin American countries, called on the region's governments to recognize the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and to establish diplomatic relations with it....
[SPS]Boujdour -Elements of the Moroccan police assaulted Wednesday young Sahrawi Sidibrahim Lehcini in the main street in the occupied city of Boujdour, according to Sahrawi human rights sources....
[SPS]El Aaiun -The two Sahrawi associations of human rights, the Collective of Sahrawi Human rights defenders (CODESA) and Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVDH) met the last week with representatives of the embassies of the United States and Netherlands in Rabat....
[SPS]Shaheed Hafed -The Staff of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) reiterated the readiness of the units of the SPLA to defend any terrorist threat, in accordance with the commitments of the Saharawi State in its capacity as a full member of the AU, according to a statement sanctioning the work of a meeting of the SPLA General Staff held Sunday under the chairmanship of the President of the...
[SPS]Shaheed Hafed -The United Nations will pursue its responsibility to enable the Saharawi people to exercise their right to self-determination through a free, democratic, and fair referendum under international supervision, confirmed the Coordinator with the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), Mr. M'hamed Khadad, in a statement Saturday to SPS....
[HRInfo]The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), issued the report of Lawyers for Democracy Network- Fifth Report to Monitor the Democratic Path in August 2014...
[SPS]Wilaya of Smara (refugee Camps) -The Ministry of Education has held Saturday the national conference on learning progress which coincides with the opening of the school year 2014-2015 under the theme "Upbringing of children on the path of heroes"....
[SPS]Agadir -The Saharawi political prisoner Alhaiba Moulay Gais unfairly sentenced Monday by the Moroccan Court of Appeal in the city of Agadir to five years in prison, said Saharawi rights sources....
[SPS]Madrid -The International Campaign against the Wall of the Moroccan Occupation in Western Sahara launched today, Tuesday, its website (www.removethewall.org) to raise awareness of the international public opinion about the dangers of the Moroccan occupation-built wall in Western Sahara....
[SPS]Abuja -Saharawi Ambassador in Nigeria Mr. Ubbi Bachraya Bachir said Friday that Africa has shifted from a continent of challenges and many-sided difficulties during the past decades to that of hope and limitless opportunities in the recent years....
[SPS]The Saharawi National Council (parliament) ratified Monday by majority of votes the mining draft law presented by the Government....
[SPS]Addis Ababa -As part of the closing ceremony of the year-long celebrations of 50th OAU/AU anniversary, the Peace and Security Council of the African Union commemorated Sunday its 10th anniversary at the Nelson Mandela Hall of the new Conference Building in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia....
[SPS]Algiers -Algeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Ramtane Lamamra hailed the commitment of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination in accordance with international legitimacy and UN principles....
[SPS]London -Adala UK has issued a report confirming that Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan prisons suffer severe health issues given the terrible conditions they are living in....
[SPS]London -The British ONG Adala UK confirmed in a recent report that "Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan prisons face the prospect of a slow, painful death given the deliberate medical negligence enforced by the prison authorities. Most detainees suffer severe health issues given the terrible conditions they are living in"....
[SPS]Harare -The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Honorable Simbarasshe. S. Mumbengegwi renewed Sunday his country's support to the Sahrawi people's right toself-determination and independence deploring that "it is ironic that even the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is deprived of its sovereignty and independence"....
[SPS]Addis Ababa -A delegation composed of poets, a singer, a researcher in culture and a representative of the Saharawi Ministry of Culture, participated these past days to the events of the ARCH, organized by the AU as part of the commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Pan African Organisation....
[SPS]President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz participated on Saturday in the investiture ceremony of President of the Republic of South Africa Mr. Jacob Zuma, in the presence of about forty heads of state and government and delegates from Africa and the world....
[SPS]Luanda (angola) -The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) has adopted a resolution on the situation in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, calling for the respect of human rights of the the Sahrawi people in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, at its 55th Ordinary Session held from 28 April 2014 in Luanda, Angola....