March 2016

Algiers, 7 March 2016 (SPS) - The United Nations seeks to find a "political, just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution" based on the "self-determination" of the Sahrawi people, said Sunday in Algiers the UN chief, Ban Ki-moon.
 
"As regards Western Sahara, we have exchanged views on what is being done by the UN for a political, just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution, based on the self-determination of the Sahrawi people," said Ban following the audience granted to him by President of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Algiers, 7 March 2016 (SPS) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday in Algiers that he asked his special envoy to Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, to "resume his tours" to restart talks between Morocco and the Polisario Front in a bid to settle the Western Sahara issue.
 

Algiers, 7 March 2016 (SPS) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday, in Algiers, issued a plea to give "more attention and action" to the question of Western Sahara, a territory occupied by Morocco since 1975, insisting on Saharawi people's inalienable right to self-determination.
 
Speaking at the Diplomatic and International Relations Institute, Ban Ki-moon said the Saharawis people have the right to dignity and self-determination.
 

Shahid El-Hafed (Refugee Camps), 7 March 2016 (SPS) - The NGOs Consortium in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps has issued appeal to provide urgent additional funding for the UN agencies and NGOs, in a letter to UN Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon, a copy of it received Monday by Sahrawi News Agency SPS.
 

Oslo (Norway) March 14, 2016 (SPS) – The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, has been awarded the 2016 Please Prize by Norwegian organization the Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund (SAIH).
 

LONDON (UK), March 09, 2016 (SPS) - Polisario Front representative in London Mohamed Limam Mohamed Ali said Tuesday  that the Sahrawi people are awaiting the fulfilment of the promises UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made during his visit to the Sahrawi liberated territories and the Sahrawi refugee camps.

Madrid, March 09, 2016 (SPS) - Spain's capital, Madrid, will host a meeting on Saturday under the theme "Sahrawi women, 40 years of struggle for independence and freedom," announced Wednesday the delegation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Madrid.
 

Algiers, March 10, 2016 (SPS) - Saharawi Coordinator to Minurso, Mohammed Kheddad, said Wednesday in Algiers that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's latest trip to the region has shown "what the international community has been proclaiming for years."
 
Kheddad stressed that "Western Sahara conflict is a decolonization issue and Morocco's alleged sovereignty over this territory has been rejected through all the resolutions issued by the international legality."

Washington,March 10, 2016 (SPS) - The United Nations affirmed Thursday that Western Sahara final status will be determined through self-determination referendum, rejecting Morocco's misleading claims about the Sahrawi occupied territories.
 

Brussels, 11 March 2016 (SPS) - Saharawi Minister Delegate for Europe Mohamed Sidati said Thursday in Brussels that Morocco's attack on the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is a sign of panic from Rabat, which has taken every action possible, over the past years, to undermine UN efforts to settle Western Sahara issue.
 
Morocco's accusations against the UN chief clearly show the "nervousness of Moroccan authorities which has resorted, once again, to pressure and blackmail," Sidati told APS.
 

Madrid, 11 March 2016 (SPS) - Morocco is under international isolation and its positions are contrary to international legality and peoples' rights to self-determination, the representative of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) to Spain, Khira Bulahi, said Thursday.
 
Morocco is in an unenviable situation, the Saharawi official told APS in response to Moroccan government's latest statements regarding United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
 

Rome (Italy), 11 March 2016 (SPS) - Italian Parliament Intergroup for Friendship with Western Sahara People said it is "on the same wavelength" as Algeria, wishing a quick solution to Saharawi, and which, it stressed, is incumbent on the United Nations.
 
"The Parliament Intergroup that I chair is on the same wavelength as Algeria, which is a neighbour of the two parties to the conflict, in supporting a solution based on self-determination of Western Sahara people," Stefano Vaccari has stressed.
 

Abuja (Nigeria) March 12, 2016 (SPS) - Nigerian President Muhammad Buhari renewed Friday Nigeria's unconditional and unwavering support to the struggle of the Saharawi people for self-determination and independence, during a reception to the envoy of the Saharawi President, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Salem Ould Salek.
 

Shahid Al-Hafid, March 12, 2016 (SPS) - The Sahrawi government and the Polisario Front has expressed strong condemnation of a visit by a Saudi delegation to the occupied Sahrawi territories to examine ways to invest there, although Western Sahara is a region of international conflict under decolonization process by the United Nations.
 

Madrid (Spain), March 12, 2016 (SPA) - Thousands of people from various Spanish cities organize Saturday in Madrid, Spanish, a rally in support of Saharawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik who have been on unlimited hunger strike since the first of March.
 
In a statement issued on the occasion, the signatories demanded the immediate release of the group, condemning the sentences issued against them and all political trials against the Sahrawi population by the Moroccan authorities of occupation.
 

Washington(United States)March 15, 2016 (SPS)  - United Nations Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said Monday he was "deeply disappointed" and "anger" following  Morocco's attacks against his person, dubbing them "disrespectful" towards the UN.
 

Algiers,March 15, 2016 (SPS) -Algeria and the Pan-African Parliament share the "same position" over Western Sahara issue, as both of them support Western Sahara people's right to self-determination through the enforcement of the international law, President of Pan-African Nkodo Dang said Tuesday in Algiers.
 

Paris, March 15, 2016 (SPS)  - French Association of Friends of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (AARASD) called on Monday in Paris Morocco to "urgently" engage in negotiation with the Polisario Front, "instead of invective and blackmail."
The AARASD said in a letter that the King of Morocco Mohamed VI "should reasonably consider the deadlock his country reached," adding that "after 40 years, Morocco, mainly its kings Hassan II and Mohamed VI, persists in imposing to international community the fact that Western Sahara is part of Morocco."

Algiers, March 15, 2016 (SPS) - Secretary General of the United Nations Ban ki-moon, who is determined to launch direct negotiations between the Polisario Front and Morocco to resolve the Sahrawi issue, denounced Rabat's "disrespectful attacks" on him whereas the Sahrawi people dub Morocco's attitude "sign of panic."
 

Chahid El Hafed(Saharawi refugee camps), March 15, 2016 (SPS) - the great friend and militant of Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia al-Hamra and Rio de Oro  Frente Polisario , Ahmed Baba Miska died yesterday  after a long struggle with the disease in the French capital, Paris.
 
Mr. Miska was one of the first political figures who have accompanied the Saharawi people in their struggle for independence both nationally and internationally.