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Nairobi, 25/01/2007 (SPS) The 7th World Social Forum closed
its works, on Thursday, with the warm sounds of the African music in
the Freedom Park (Uhuru Park), where thousands militants, activists
and citizens gathered to sing the freedom for Africa and its
peoples.
The closure ceremony, which started Thursday early in the morning
with a march of some participating delegations and activists of the
Kenyan civil society, was marked by the participation of the
Saharawi musical group, "Estrella Polisaria", which was included in
the programme despite Moroccans’ vain attempts to put obstacles.
The Saharawi music has thus embraced other African music, and the
slogans advocating "Freedom for the last colony in Africa", were
chanted and repeated many times by the audience and by the young
monitors of the musical show, who asked for the decolonisation of
the Western Sahara and the abolition of colonialism and repression
against the peoples.
The 7th World Social Forum was again at the rendezvous. Many
aspirations and desires revealed to be far from reach, especially a
common work of the actors of civil society to search alternatives to
the resolve the serious problems of poverty, wars, AIDS in Africa,
violence against individuals and groups, colonisation and the
domination of the big powers.
On its side, the Saharawi delegation has fully represented the
struggle of the Saharawi people against the Moroccan colonialism in
the Western Sahara and against the crimes committed by the "fascist
and mean regime of Morocco, which has again failed to hinder our
programmes and activities in spite of the big sums of money they
invested on their group of secret services agents and renegades from
Saharawi origins", stressed Mr. Mohamed Ahmed Laabeid, Member of the
Association of the Families of Saharawi Disappeareds and Prisoners
in charge for Foreign Relations (SPS)
060/KENYA/000 251920 Jan 07 SPS
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