[SPS]Arriving in the Saharawi Refugee camps in the Algerian desert near Tindouf, the home of over 150.000 or around a third of the Saharawi population indigenous to Western Sahara, one is immediately struck by the extreme heat, the lack of water, and the aridness of the landscape. A landscape where little grows without a great effort and where the refugee population has lived since 1975, when Morocco...
[SPS]Ljubljana -The Participants of the 4th Solidarity Conference in support of the people of Western Sahara, held in Ljubljana on Tuesday, have called, in a communiqué issued at the end of the conference, the United Nations (UN) to "immediately apply their resolutions on the Western Sahara by organizing a referendum on self-determination."...
[SPS]Bir Lehlou (Liberated Territories) -President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz has felicitated the new President-elect of Panama Mr. Juan Carlos Varela, renewing the Saharawi Republic's willingness to strengthen ties with the Republic of Panama....
[SPS]Bir Lehlou (liberated Territories) -Minister of Education Mrs. Mariem Salek Hmada has sent letters of congratulation to Algeria's new Minister of National Education Mrs. Nouria Benghebrit, and Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Mr. Mohamed Mebarki....
[SPS]The Saharawi people is preparing to celebrate Saturday the 41th anniversary of the establishment of the Polisario Front on May 10, 1973....
[SPS]El Aaiun -Four Norwegian citizens were thrown out of the occupied city of El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara, by Moroccan occupying authorities at 00:00 am on Monday night....
[SPS]Chahid Al Hafed (Refugee Camps) -"Frente Polisario is adhered to the strategic option of struggle through all legitimate means so that the Saharawi people be able to exercise their right to self-determination," indicated a communiqué issued Monday at the end of the 8th session of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front....
[SPS]Abuja -President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Abdulwahid Omar expressed "the support the Nigerian labour movement of the struggle of the Saharawi people for freedom and national independence."...
[SPS]President of the Republic Secretary-General of the Polisario Front on Mohamed Abdelaziz supervised Thursday the commemoration of the International Workers' Day at the presidency....
[SPS]Dakhla -The U.S.-based Moroccan journalist, Samia Razougui, said Friday that her participation to the 11th edition of the International Film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSahara), underway in the Wilaya of Dakhla, is an "opportunity" for her to be informed about the reality of Western Sahara conflict, contrary to those misinformation promoted by Moroccan authorities....
[SPS]Dakhla -"Legna" film (Sahrawi poetry) Juan Ignacio Robles, Bahia Awah, and Juan Carlos Gimeno has been awarded the "White Camel" prize as the best film of the 11 edition of the International Film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSahara)....
[SPS]Adala UK has participated in a conference in El Aiun, organised by the coordinator of the GdeimIzik camp, following the announcement of the launch of a national and international campaign for the liberation of Saharawi political prisoners. Several other Saharawi NGOs and media representatives also attended the conference....
[SPS]The Ambassador of South Africa to Algeria and the Sahrawi Republic, Mr. Joseph Kotane reaffirmed that his country will continue to be with the Saharawi people in their just struggle for freedom and independence....
[SPS]Secretary General of the Union of Sahrawi Women Ms. Fatma Mehdi participated Thursday in a conference organized by the Union of Russia Women in Moscow and attended by many Russian and international women organizations....
[SPS]Austria -A delegation of the the Sahrawi Youth Union took part to the 35th Congress of Austrian Socialist Youth held May 2-3, under the theme "Money for education, not for banks."...
[SPS]Addis Ababa -Saharawi delegation chaired by the Minister of Development and Agriculture, Naama Said Jamani, participated to the meetings of the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture, Rural Development, Fisheries and Aquaculture between 28 April and 2 May, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia....
[SPS]Addis Ababa -The Saharawi Minister of Development and agriculture, Naama Saaid Jamani, warned on Wednesday 30 April, during the meeting of the AU Joint Meeting of Ministers of Agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture meeting between the 28th of April to 2 of May, against the Moroccan and European Union's systematic plunder of the Saharawi fisheries in total violation of the International law....
[SPS]Dakhla -Prime Minister Mr. Abdelkader Taleb Omar has urged, in a speech on Wednesday during the opening ceremony of the FiSahara 11th edition, UN Security Council to find a new approach to the Saharawi cause, in case there achieved no progress this year....
[SPS]Washington -Members of Congress urged Thursday the US Government to exert efforts to enable the UN Mission for the referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to carry its mandate to hold the referendum on the status of Western Sahara, in a letter to Secretary of State Mr. John Kerry....
[SAnews.gov.za]Pretoria -South Africa is participating in the 11th edition of the International Film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSahara) which kicked off on Wednesday in the Wilaya of Dakhla, Sahrawi refugee camps....