[SPS]Dakhla (Refugee Camps) -The Wilaya of Dakhla, Sahrawi refugee camps, hosted Thursday the Regional Festival of Culture and Folk Arts, organized under the theme "Alerting the Cultural Front to Support of the Independence Intifada," in coincidence with the 11th edition of International Film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSahara)....
[SPS]Dakhla (Refugee Camps) -Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar on Wednesday expressed satisfaction with the resolution of the United Nations Security Council though it does not provide for the extension of the mandate of the UN Mission for Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to include human rights monitoring in the occupied Sahrawi territories....
[SPS]Dakhla -The U.S. filmmaker David Riker, editor and writter of Dirty War Documentary, has noted that everyone of the Saharawi people he spoke with, from the grandparents to the children, share "a common dream" for the independence for their land, expressing commitment to tell people in the U.S. about the plight of Saharawi people....
[SPS]Nelson Mandela's Companion Andrew Mlangeni confirmed that the Saharawi people's struggle is similar to the struggle of the South African people against the apartheid regime, in a speech Wednesday during the opening ceremony of the 11th edition of the International film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSahara) held in the Wilaya of Dakhla, Sahrawi refugee camps....
[SPS]El Aaiun -The Moroccan forces suppressed 'violently' on Wednesday evening a peaceful demonstration in the occupied city of El Aaiun, leaving more than 70 injured, according to the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Community Abroad....
[SPS]Dakhla (Refugee Camps) -The 11th edition of the International Film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSahara) kicked off Wednesday in the Wilaya of Dakhla, Sahrawi refugee camps, under the theme "cinema for human rights in Western Sahara."...
[SPS]Washington -Polisario Front expressed satisfaction with the Security Council's commitment in favour of a political solution to the Western Sahara conflict based on Saharawis' inalienable right to self-determination," Ahmed Boukhari, Polisario Front representative at the UN....
[SPS]Algiers -Algeria Tuesday expressed "satisfaction" with the UN Security Council's adoption of Resolution on Western Sahara, which extends the mandate of the MINURSO and renews the mission entrusted to Christopher Ross, as Special Envoy of UN Secretary General, said Algerian Foreign Ministry's spokesman Abdelaziz Benali Cherif....
[SPS]Recalling and reaffirming all its previous resolutions on Western Sahara,...
[SPS]Chahid Al Hafed -Prime Minister Mr. Abdelkader Taleb Omar has congratulated his counterpart of Algeria Mr. Abdelmalek Sellal following his appointment by the Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Monday....
[SPS]New York -Polisario Front has welcomed the UN Security Council's attachment and commitment to a solution to the conflict of Western Sahara based on the inalienable right of the Saharawi people to self-determination....
[SPS]New York -The Security Council of the United Nations adopted Tuesday a resolution on Western Sahara, in which the Council reiterated his call for a "political, lasting and mutually acceptable" solution providing for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara....
[allAfrica]United States Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Addis Ababa today on the first stop of a visit to east and central Africa. As his trip began, he responded by email to questions from AllAfrica:...
[UN News]The Security Council today extended for another year the mandate of the United Nations mission tasked with monitoring the ceasefire in Western Sahara and organizing a referendum on self-determination for the people of the territory....
[SPS]Chahid Al Hafed -A very important delegation of the Republic of South Africa arrived Monday night in the Saharawis refugee camps to participate at the 11th edition of the International Film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSahara), to be kicked off tomorrow....
[SPS]London -British holidaymakers are being urged to respond to the situation in Western Sahara by boycotting its occupier, Morocco, as a destination, wrote British national daily newspaper the Guardian in its Sunday edition by chief reporter for the Observer Tracy McVeigh....
[SPS]Moscow -Secretary General of the Saharawi Women Union Mrs. Fatma El-Mehdi takes part at meeting of the central committee of Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF), kicked off Monday in Moscow....
[SPS]Madrid -The 11th edition of the International Film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSahara) presented Thursday in Madrid, capital of Spain, in the presence of Polisario Front's Representative Mr. Abdallahi Al-Bardi and several Spanish actors, activists and sympathizers with the Saharawi cause....
[SPS]Washington -The U.S. Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (RFK Center) has called upon the Security Council of the UN to add a human rights monitoring mechanism to the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), when the Council votes to renew its mandate....
[SPS]Accra -The Forum of Ghana has reaffirmed the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence, during a conference of solidarity with the Saharawi people in Accra, under the theme "Western Sahara: the forgotten struggle against colonialism,"....