Sidi Ifni (Morocco), 27/08/2008 (SPS) Moroccan military forces in Sidi Ifni arrested five citizens after the confrontations that took place in the city these last two months between the citizens and the authorities, it was indicated by concordant sources on the ground.

Chahid ElHafed, 26/08/2008 (SPS) The President of the Saharawi republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, estimated that Morocco gets 4 to 5 milliards US dollars from its illegal exploitation of the natural resources of Western Sahara, deploring the silence of the international community.

El Aaiun (occupied territories), 25/08/2008 (SPS) Saharawi human rights activist and trade unionist, Ms. Khadija Muthik, decided to start a hunger strike for 48 hours Monday morning to denounce “the Moroccan serious human rights violations in Western Sahara”.

Smara (occupied territories), 25/08/2008(SPS) The forces of occupation arrested an ex-Saharawi political prisoner of conscience, Mr. Berkouh Ahmed, during demonstrations last Friday evening and early morning of Saturday in two streets of the occupied city of Smara, indicated a juridical Saharawi source on the ground.

Amsterdam, 25/08/2008 (SPS) The Saharawi human rights activist and ex-prisoner of conscience, Ms. Elghalia Jimi, started a visit to Amsterdam, where she will meet with members of the section of Amnesty International in the country and members of the Dutch government, indicated the Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Flagrant Human rights violations Committed by the Moroccan State (ASVDH).

New Zealand, 24/08/2008 (SPS) The Saharawi Minister Delegated by the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Charge of Africa, Mohamed Yeslem Beissat, qualified New Zealand purchase of the phosphate of Western Sahara as "illegal", since it is a support to the "Moroccan illegal occupation" of the last colony in Africa.

Western Sahara, 23/08/2008 (SPS) The Moroccan forces of oppression brutally dispersed peaceful demonstrations organised by Saharawi people last Wednesday and Thursday in the occupied cities of Dakhla and Samara to demand their right to self-determination, concordant sources indicated.

Caracas, 23/08/2008 (SPS) The new Saharawi Ambassador, Emboirik Ahmed, presented his letters of credence as the extraordinary and plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Saharawi Republic, to the President of the Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, a source from the Saharawi Embassy in Caracas indicated.

Algiers, 21/08/2008 (SPS) The President of the Saharawi Republic, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, denounced the last terrorist attacks in Algeria considering them as "opposite to the teachings of Islam and the human values".

Bir Lehlu (liberated territories), 21/08/2008 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, addressed on Wednesday a message of condolences to the Head of the Spanish government, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, after the accident of the Spanish plane in the airport of Barajas (Madrid).

Nouakchott, 21/08/2008 (SPS) The Special messenger of the President of the Republic, El Khalil Sidi Mohamed, was received Wednesday in audience at the presidential Palace in Nouakchott by General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of the Mauritanian High Council of the State.

Tlemcen, 20/08/2008 (SPS) The President of the Saharawi Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, vividly condemned, on Wednesday in Tlemcen, "the coward terrorist attacks in Issers and Bouira (Algeria), which caused the loss of innocent lives".

Tlemcen, 20/08/2008 (SPS) Mr. Pierre Galland, President of the International Coordination of Support to the Saharawi People, said he was "optimistic" about the settlement of the Saharawi people, on Wednesday in Telmcen (Algeria).

Tlemcen, 20/08/2008 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, invited the "Moroccan government to work together for the settlement of our problems", on Wednesday in Telmcen (Algeria).

Tlemcen (Algeria), 19/08/2008 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, declared on Tuesday in Tlemcen that POLISARIO Front is "ready to resume the negotiations if a new representative of the UN Secretary General to Western Sahara is nominated".

Kenitra, 18/08/2008 (SPS) The Saharawi political prisoner, Salek Lasseiri, was subjected Sunday in a case of rape committed by employees of the penitentiary administration of the prison of Kenitra, where he is imprisoned in a single cell since a week, "because of his opinions in favour of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence", a member of the family of the prisoner in a statement to SPS.

Tiznit, 18/08/08 (SPS) Four Saharawi political prisoners are in a critical state of health because of the hunger strike they are undertaking for a week so far to denounce the penitentiary refusal to answer their legitimate claims to be treated as prisoners of conscience, a source form the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Communities indicated.

Chahid El Hafed, 18/08/2008 (SPS) The Saharawi red Crescent (SRC) declared that the Italian government decided to grant the Saharawi refugees 2 millions euros donation through the World Food Programme (WFP).

Algiers, 16/08/2008 (SPS) POLISARIO Front "multiplied the diplomatic success" these last months and 85 States recognise the Saharawi Republic, the Saharawi Ambassador in Algiers, Mr. Brahim Ghali, indicated.

Bir Lehlu (liberated territories), 15/08/2008 (SPS) The Saharawi President, Mohamed Abdelaziz, declared to the UN Secretary General that his Personal envoy to Western Sahara, Mr. Peter Van Valsum, disqualified himself from mediating between POLISARIO and Morocco.

Copenhagen, 16/08/2008 (SPS) POLISARIO Front’s Deputy Representative in Denmark, Abba Malainin, briefed the Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs about the latest developments of the question of Western Sahara, a press release by the representation indicated.

Kenchla (Algeria), 16/08/2008 (SPS) The Secretary General of the Saharawi Presidency, Mr. Daf Mohamed Fadhel, underlined on Friday in Khenchela, that the option of the armed struggle is not excluded to accelerate the settlement of the Saharawi problem and enable the Saharawi people to exercise their right to self-determination.

Mheiriz (liberated territories), 15/08/2008 (SPS) The third edition of the Summer University opened last Thursday in the liberated zone of "Mheiriz" with the presence of hundreds Saharawi students, Saharawi fighters of the 4th military region, some nomads of the region situated near the occupied spiritual capital of Western Sahara, Smara.

Tantan (south of Morocco), 14/08/2008 (SPS) 2002 RAFTO Price winner, Sidi Mohamed Deddach, was arrested, Monday, at a police control in the south of Tantan, while he was heading to the city of Agadir to attend a trial of 8 Saharawi prisoners of conscience.

27 February School (Saharawi refugee camps), 12/08/2008 (SPS) The President of the "Saguia El_Hamra y Rio de Oro Centre for Strategic and Political Studies", Mr. Baba Moustpha Sayed, animated a conference in the Centre Chahida Naaja Ali Brahim, under the theme: "Clash between civilisations, myth or reality?".

Asunción, 12/08/2008 (SPS) Paraguay and the Saharawi Republic decided to resume diplomatic relations and cooperation, according to a press release of the Paraguayan Minister for Foreign Affairs, published on Tuesday in Asunción.

Teheran, 12/08/2008 (SPS) The President of Algeria, Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, affirmed, Monday in Teheran, that "the unfinished decolonisation" of Western Sahara hinders the realisation of the Maghreb Arab.

Annaba (Algiers), 11/08/2008 (SPS) 500 Saharawi persons are still reported missing in Western Sahara since the Moroccan invasion of the territory in 1975, the Secretary General of the Saharawi Presidency, Daf Mohamed Fadhel, indicated.

Bir Lehlu, 11/08/2008 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, sent a message of condolences to the President of the Palestinian authority, Mahmoud Abbas, after the death of the great Arab and Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Derwich, last Saturday in a hospital in Texas after an heart chirurgical operation.

Annaba (Algeria), 11/08/2008 (SPS) The Saharawi Ambassador in Algiers, Mr. Brahim Ghali, affirmed on Sunday in the Algerian city of Annaba that the Saharawi cause will triumph in the end.

Abuja, 10/08/2008 (SPS) Nigerian Human Rights Commission’s Executive Secretary, Mrs. Kehinde F. Ajoni, expressed "deep concern" of her organisation about the serious situation of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, as reported by many international reports and testimonies of victims", a source from the Saharawi Embassy in Abuja indicated.

Pretoria, 09/08/2008 (SPS) The new Saharawi Ambassador, Salah El Abd Mohamed, presented on Friday morning, his credentials to the South African President, Thabo Mbeki, as an extraordinary ad plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Saharawi Republic to Pretoria.

Abuja, 09/08/2008 (SPS) The President of the People’s Democratic Party’s women (PDP), in power in Nigerian, Ms. Inna Ciroma, expressed her "admiration of the determination and sacrifices that characterises the Saharawi women’s contribution to the struggle and legitimate resistance of the Saharawi people for self-determination and independence", adding that "such perseverance comes from a deep faith in the fairness of their cause".

New York, (United Nations), 08/08/2008 (SPS) Mr. Mhamed Khadad, Saharawi Coordinator with the MINURSO and Member of POLISARIO National Secretariat, was received Today at the seat of the UN in New York by Mr. Lynn Pascoe, Under Secretary General for Political Affairs, to whom he handed over a letter from the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, to the UN's Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Saharawi official source indicated.

El Aaiun (occupied territories), 07/08/2008 (SPS) The Collective of the Saharawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA) called, Wednesday, on international human rights organisations to attend the trial of 8 Saharawi prisoners of conscience, including a human rights defender, that will take place this Tuesday in Agadir (Morocco).

Abuja, 07/08/2008 (SPS) Saharawi Ambassador to Nigeria, Ubi Bachir, reaffirmed on Wednesday that "the referendum on self-determination remains the unique solution for the decolonisation of Western Sahara", a source from the Saharawi Embassy in Nigeria indicated.

Washington DC, 07/08/2008 (SPS) US Senators called on the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, to press for the opening of an investigation, by the UN, to set accountabilities in the events that occurred in the fishermen village of "Einterfet”, near the occupied city of Dakhla last July 21st.

27 February School (Saharawi refugee camps), 06/08/2008 (SPS) The President of the Centre of Saguia El_Hamra y Rio de Oro for Strategic and Political Studies, Mr. Baba Moustpha Sayed, animated a conference on the Political Islam, its roots and goals on Monday.

Abuja, 06/08/2008 (SPS) The Nigerian Labour Council (NLC), expressed its "steady support to the Saharawi workers resistance and its appreciation of the role played by the Saharawi Workers General Union (UGTSARIO) in the struggle of the Saharawi people within the international social forums for the defence of Africa and the rights of African workers".

27 February School (Saharawi refugee camps), 05/08/2008 (SPS) POLISARIO Front National Secretariat’s Member in charge of Political Orientation, El Bachir Mustapha Essayed, affirmed on Tuesday that the "Moroccan denial of the Saharawi reality and of the international legality’s resolutions in favour of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination is a political blindness, an ineptness and a vein attempt to occult the reality"

Abuja, 05/08/2008 (SPS) The Saharawi Ambassador in Nigeria, Oubi Bouchraya Bachir, was received last Monday at the seat of the Nigerian People’s Democratic Party (PDP) by the National President of the party, Vincent Ogbulafor, with the presence of the Secretary General of the Party, Abubakar Baraje, and his vice secretary, Dr. Musa Babayo, as well as Ms. Agope Kramer and Mr. Bello Haliru, respectively person in charge of international Relations and Vice National President.

Abuja, 04/8/2008 (SPS) The Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (RASD), represented by the Saharawi Ambassador in Nigeria, Oubi Bouchraya Bachir, participated to the works of the 2nd Conference of African Ministers of Habitat and Urban development (AMCHUD), held from the 28 to the 30th July 2008 in Abuja, a press release by the Embassy indicated.

Mila (Algiers),03/08/2008 (SPS) 7.000 Saharawi students continue their studies in the Algerian schools and universities, the Saharawi Minister of Education, Ms. Mariem Salek Ahmada, indicated on Sunday in Mila (Algiers).

Teheran, 03/08/2008 (SPS) Foreign Ministers of non-aligned countries has reaffirmed in Teheran their backing to United Nations efforts to reach a political solution with a view to provide for Saharawi people’s right to self-determination.

Constantine, 02/08/2008 (SPS) "Crimes in silence" is the titled of a book on the human rights violations committed by Morocco against the Saharawi people, which was distributed during the passage of the Saharawi political and cultural Caravan in the end of the week in Constantine.

Paris, 02/08/2008 (SPS) A group of Saharawi children from the refugee camp of Aousserd are spending their holidays in France on the invitation of the Mayor of the French Mayoralty of Vitry, which organised a reception on their honour on Friday.

Port-Vila, 01/08/2008 (SPS) The Republic of Vanuatu and the Saharawi Arab Democratic repblic decided on Thursday in Port-Vila, to establish diplomatic relations, indicated a joint press release signed by the Minister Delegated by the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Charge of Africa, Mohamed Yeslem Beissat, and Vanuatua’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Georges A. Wells.

Martyr El Ouali Military School, (refugee camps) 01/08/2008 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, chaired on Thursday in Martyr El Ouali Military School the ceremony of the graduation of a new promotion of the Saharawi Army of Liberation baptised the promotion of "the 3rd anniversary of the Intifada”.

Budapest, 30/07/2008 (SPS) The East and Central European Alliance of solidarity with the Saharawi people called on France to defend the fundamental principles of human rights and to launch a complete investigation on human rights violations committee by the Moroccan State against the Saharawi citizens in the occupied zones of Western Sahara.