[SPS]Johannesburg (South Africa) April 5, 2014 (SPS) - A delegation led by Minister of Justice and Religious Affairs Hamada Salma took part in the second consultative meeting of African Ministers of Justice called for by the African Union for the reform of prisons and penal institutions....
[SPS]Algiers -The United States express their support for the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination as part of United Nations Security Council resolutions, said on Thursday the joint-statement published after the 2nd session of Algerian-American Strategic Dialogue....
[SPS]Smara -The President of the Republic Secretary-General of the Polisario Front Mohamed Abdelaziz has announced the launch of a national and international campaign for the release of all Saharawi political prisoners and reveal the fate of those who have disappeared since October 31, 1975....
[SPS]Chahid Al Hafed -The Saharawi Mine Actions Coordination Office (SMACO) organized today morning, Thursday, a seminar about the risks and dangers of landmines, on the occasion of the International Day for Mine Awareness, observed on April 4th each year....
[SPS]Chahid Al Hafed -The UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for Western Sahara Mr. Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber received Thursday, as part of a visit to the Saharawi refugee camps, by Mr. Said Filali, chair of the Saharawi National Commission for Human Rights....
[SPS]Geneva -A Saharawi delegation, composed of the Coordinator of the Saharawi Mine Action Coordination Office Mr. Samu Ammu Dih, participated at the 17th International Meeting of Mine Action National Programme Directors and UN Advisors, took place from 31st March to 2nd April in Geneva....
[SPS]Santiago -Chile's House of Deputies has called on the President of the Republic Mrs. Michelle Bachelet to recognize the Saharawi Republic (SADR), infromed Wednesday the Argentinian association "Western Sahara voice"....
[SPS]Rome -The Italian Senate has unanimously urged government to work for the extension of MINURSO mandates to include the monitoring of human rights in Western Sahara, as to increase humanitarian assistance provided for the Saharawi refugees....
[SPS]Algiers -Algeria's Foreign Minister Mr. Ramtane Lamamra has voiced his country's full support to the efforts underatken by the Personal Envoy of the UN's Secretary General for Western Sahara Mr. Christopher Ross aimed at resolving Western Sahara conflict....
[SPS]Chahid Al Hafed -Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Mohamed Salem Ould Salek met Thursday's evening with Mr. Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber, UN Secretary General's Special Representative in Western Sahara, who visits the Saharawi refugee camps....
[SPS]London -A group of British MPs have called upon the UN Security Council to extend the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission to Western Sahara, known as the MINURSO, so that it can monitor and protect human rights, according to Polisario Front's office in the UK....
[SPS]The Saharawi Media Group in the occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara, made Wednesday a report following the overall and day-to-day course of the trial of Gdeim Izik prisoners....
[SPS]Paris -The Slovenian Member of the European Parliament Mr. Ivo Vajgl has noted that "only delegations and individuals who represent the Moroccan official positions have the right to get into the occupied territories of Western Sahara," in a statement released Monday by Radio France International (RFI)....
[SPS]London -The British NGO "Adala UK" has called on all non-governmental organizations and governments for an international campaign in order to encourage the UN to vote for a human rights monitoring mandate to be incorporated into the MINURSO (UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara), when to be discussed within the Security Council in April 2014....
[SPS]Brussels -The Saharawi MP Sueilma Beiruk, also vice-president of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), participated Monday and Tuesday in the Africa-EU parliamentary summit ahead of the 4th EU-Africa summit, to take place in Brussels from 2nd to 3rd April, 2014....
[SPS]El Aaiun -The Moroccan Court of First Instance in the occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara, has postponed to next April 7th the trial of three Saharawi political prisoners....
[SPS]Washington -The Saharawi activist of human rights Mrs. Aminatou Haidar continues her visit to the United States of America, where she was received by various committees of the U.S. Congress....
[SPS]June 9th School (refugee Camps) -The Saharawi National Council (parliament) approved Tuesday the governemnt's programme for the year 2014, in the presence of Prmie Minister Mr. Abdelkader Taleb Omar and members of the government....
[SPS]El Aaiun -At least ten Saharawis were injured on Tuesday in a Moroccan occupying forces' intervention against a peaceful demonstration calling for self-determination and independence for the Saharawi people....
[SPS]Algiers -A solidarity caravan for Sahrawi people organized by the association Al Irshad Wal Islah arrived Monday in the Sahrawi refugee camps carrying food aid and school stationery for more than 200 Saharawi families....