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[SPS]Chahid Al Hafed -Several films and documentaries, made by both Saharawi and foreign filmamkers, will be screened at 11th edition of the International Film Festival in Western Sahara (known as: the FiSahara), to be celebrated in the Wilaya of Dakhla from April 29th to May 4th, 2014....

[SPS]Washington -The U.S. professor at Northwestern University School of Law, Eugene Kontorovich, has criticized Wall Street Journal over a correction of an article it published on 3 April 2014, in which it described the territory of Western Sahara as "disputed", while it is treated as occupied in the leading international law texts....

[SPS]Algiers -Algeria and Ecuador have called for a "fair" and "lasting" settlement for Western Sahara issue, based on a mutually acceptable political solution which guarantees the right to self-determination of the Sahrawi people....

[SPS]Kigali -Non-resident ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Rwanda Mr. Habib Boukhreis paid Wedensday a courtesy call on the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Rwanda, Hon. MUKABALISA Donatille....

[SPS]Oslo -Norway's Liberal Party Leader Mrs. Trine Skei Grande reiterated Thursday, in a meeting with Polisario Front's Representative in Oslo Dr. Limam Khalil, her party's support to the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence, voicing support to the extension of MINURSO mandate to include the monitoring and report about human rights in Western Sahara....

[SPS]New York -Polisario Front has categorically refuted the statements attributed to its Representative in the UN promoted by certain Arab media oulets that it opposed a French proposal submitted to the UN Security Council, ahead of the deliberations scheduled for current April 17th....

[SPS]New York -President of the Collective of Saharawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA) Mrs. Aminatou Haidar received Tuesday at the UN headquartes in New York by Dr. Joy Ogwu, current president of the Security Council and permanent representative of Nigeria to the UN....

[SPS]Kigali -Saharawi Ambassador in Rwanda Mr. Habib Boukhreis was received Tuesday in the capital Kigali by Dr. Jean Damascene Ntawukuliryayo, President of the Senate of the Republic of Rwanda ....

[SPS]Kigali -Ambassador Mr. Habib Mahfud Boukhreis has represented the Saharawi Republic (SADR) at the 20th anniversary of the 1994 genocide carried out against the Tutsi in Rwanda, commemorated on April 6 of each year....

[SPS]Chahid Al Hafed -The Minister of Culture Mrs. Khadija Hamdi declared Monday that the 14th edition of the International Film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSahara), to be celebrated in the Wilaya of Dajla from 29 April until 4 May 2014, will honour the African and international freedom fighter, Nelson Mandela....

[SPS]Chahid Al Hafed -The Council of Ministers has condemned, in the strongest terms, the practices carried out by Moroccan occupying state in the occupied Saharawi territories, calling upon the United Nations to speed up the decolonization of Western Sahara....

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[SPS]Smara -The Sahrawi citizens in the occupied city of Smara took Saturday to the streets in a 'massive' demonstration to demand the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and release of Sahrawi political prisoners, according to the Ministry of the Occupied Territories and Community Abroad....

[SPS]Washington -Ahead of the Security Council's forthcoming deliberations on April 17th, the Frente POLISARIO has expressed deep concern over Morocco's ongoing and systematic violation of the human rights of the Saharawi people, reiterating call on the Security Council to assume responsibility regarding the decolonisation of Western Sahara....

[SPS]Algiers -The extension of MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) prerogatives to protect human rights in the Sahrawi territories occupied by Morocco is "juridical and human urgency," the Algerian National Committee of Solidarity with Sahrawi People (CNASPS) said in a communiqué Monday....

[SPS]Oslo (norway) -Leader of Norwegian Green Party Mrs. Hanna Marcussen has called on the Norwegian government to support the expansion of the prerogatives of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to include monitoring and reporting on human rights in Western Sahara....

[SPS]London -Western Sahara Action Forum which is organizing an international campaign to expand the prerogatives of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in the Westren Sahara (MINURSO) has published a letter on its website signed on behalf of Mr. Frank Ruddy, former deputy ِChairman of the MINURSO, Mr. Peter Van Walsum, the former Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara,...

[SPS]New York -Sahrawi activist of human rights Aminatou Haidar held Tuesday and Wednesday meetings meetings with some members of the UN Security Council, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Luxembourg....

[SPS]Washington -The United Nations Security Council will hold an informal consultation meeting on Western Sahara on 17 April before giving a decision about the draft resolution by the end of April, said Wednesday its President Joy Ogwu at a press conference held at UN's headquarters....

[SPS]Smara -President of the Republic, Secretary- General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdel Aziz decorated Dr. Saeed Ayashi, chairman of the Algerian Committee of Solidarity with the Saharawi people, and Mohamed Mehrez Ammari, former chairman of the committee, with the Medal of the Republic during a ceremony held friday in the Wilaya of Smara, Sahrawi Refugee Camps....