Shaheed El-Hafed (refugee camps), Oct 20, 2017 (SPS) - Sahrawi President and Polisario Front's Secretary General Brahim Ghali on Thursday has held talks with the United Nations Secretary General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Horst Kohler.
The one-to-one discussions took place at the headquarters of the Presidency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Shaheed El-Hafed camp.
Algiers, Oct 20, 2017 (SPS) – The 42nd European Coordinating Conference of Support to the Sahrawi People (EUCOCO 2017), to take place in Paris, France, on 21 and 22 October, is a major annual event during which the participants would reaffirm their support to the Sahrawi cause and the inalienable right of the people of Western Sahara to self-determination and independence.
Shaheed El-Hafed (refugee camps), Oct 20, 2017 (SPS)- The United Nations should force Morocco to respect the international law and legality concerning the Sahrawi issue, said Wednesday President of the Sahrawi Parliament Khatri Edouh.
Chahid El Hafed, Oct 19,2017 (SPS) - The Personal Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for Western Sahara, Horst Köhler, has held a meeting with members of Saharawi civil society at the headquarters of the Association of Relatives of Saharawi Prisoners and Disappeared Persons (AFAPRADESA).
Wilaya of Auserd, 18/10/2017 (SPS) - The Personal Envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations for Western Sahara, Horst Köhler, said in an intervention at his reception in Auserd, that he will listen carefully to create a vision that help understand the Saharawi question.
Horst Köhler, said that he appreciated the popular reception of the wilaya of Auserd and conveyed the greetings of the Secretary General of the United Nations, while affirming that he will spare no effort to resolve the Saharawi question.
Chahid El Hafed, October 19, 2017 (SPS) - The Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Western Sahara, Horst Kohler, held a working session with members of the Saharawi negotiating delegation at the guest house in Chahid El Hafed.
Bojador (Sahrawi refugee camps) Oct 19, 2017 (SPS) - The representative of the Frente POLISARIO to the United Nations Ahmed Bujari reaffirmed Tuesday, in Bojador (Sahrawi refugee camps), the participation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in the 5th African Union-European Union Summit, scheduled on 29-30 November in Abidjan (Ivory Coast), in the same way as all AU’s member States.
Wilaya de Auserd, Oct 18,2017 (SPS) - The Consultative Council, on Wednesday, called on the international community to end the suffering of the Saharawi people, which lasted more than four decades.
The Saharawi Consultative Council Vice-President, Abba Mohamed Moulud Abbali, said in an address on behalf of his organ, on the occasion of the arrival of the Personal Envoy to the camps, that the Saharawi people collaborated positively with all successive special envoys despite absence of a just solution to the Saharawi question.
Wilaya of Auserd, Oct 18, 2017 (SPS) - The messes of the Wilaya of Auserd have received on Wednesday the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Western Sahara, Horst Koehler, who arrived in the camps on the second leg of his first visit to the region, in the framework of his first tour to revival negotiations between the two parties to reach a solution that guarantees the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination.
Bahia (Brazil), Oct 18, 2017 (SPS) – at the invitation of the Bahia State University (UNEB), the Brazilian Center for Peace, Latin Patria, the Mauricio Grabois Foundation, and the José Martí Cultural Association, a Saharawi representative in Brazil, Emboirik Ahmed gave a talk under the title "The Long March of Western Sahara for its self-determination", in the Jurandi Oliveira Auditorium of the Bahiana University.
Sochi (Russia),Oct 18, 2017 (SPS) - Participants at the 19th World Youth Festival demanded a quick solution from the international community to the Sahrawi conflict that has been unresolved for decades.
During the third day of the Festival, dedicated to the African continent, where subjects related to sustainable development, education, colonialism, etc., the participants agreed that the Saharawi issue needs an urgent solution, to put an end to the suffering of the Saharawi people, who have been suffering dispersal and war for more than four decades.
Chahid El Hafed, Oct 18, 2017 (SPS) - The Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to Western Sahara, Mr. Horst Koehler, has just arrived to the Sahrawi refugee camps on Wednesday for a visit to the region in order to resume negotiations between the two parties to reach a solution that guarantees the right of the Saharawi people.
The UN envoy was received by Emhamed Khadad, Saharwi Coordinator with MINURSO, Mr. Bujari Ahmed, Representative of the Frente POLISARIO to the United Nations, and Mr.
León, Spain, Oct 18, 2017 (SPS) - The headquarters of the Unified Left Party in the Spanish city of León, hosted Tuesday a seminar on the various stages of Sahrawi people's struggle, attended by Spanish political figures, sympathizers with the Sahrawi people, and academics and students.
Chahid El Hafed, Oct 18, 2017 (SPS) - The representative of the Frente POLISARIO to the United Nations, Bujari Ahmed, stated that the Saharawi leadership will take advantage of the visit of the Special Envoy for the Western Sahara, Mr. Horst Kohler, to exchange views on the peace process that is blocked by Moroccan obstructions.
The Sahrawi diplomat told the Saharawi National Radio that "it is positive that the new envoy comes from Germany, a very active and influential country in international politics ".
Addis Ababa(Ethiopia), Oct 17, 2017 (SPS) - The African Union Executive Council reaffirmed, Monday during an extraordinary session, the right of all AU member states to participate in the 5th AU-European Union Summit, due to be held in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire on 29 and 30 November 2017.
The participants in the extraordinary session adopted a resolution reaffirming the need to fully respect the AU's decisions, particularly the decision 942 of the 31st ordinary session of AU Executive Council in July 2017.
Sochi (Russia), Oct 17, 2017 (SPS) - The Sahrawi delegation participating in the 19th World Youth and Student Festival held bilateral activities and meetings with a number of political parties during a workshop on solidarity with peoples suffering from blockade and colonialism.
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Oct 17. 2017 (SPS) - The Special Session of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of AU Countries began Monday at the headquarters of the African Union in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. To concretize the position of the countries that will represent the continental organization, at the next EU-AU Summit.
Paris, Oct 17, 2017 (SPS) - Western Sahara decolonization will be on the menu of three meetings in Paris and its suburbs, as of Friday. Discussions will focus on Europe’s role in this conflict, especially that of France, Morocco's only support, which occupies this non self –governing territory since 1975.
The Moroccan authorities have spent decades imprisoning Saharawis who support self-determination in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara. They then send detainees to prisons in Morocco, thus depriving them of their basic rights such as family visits, medical attention and opportunities to study.
Addis Ababa, 16 Oct 2017 (SPS) The Extraordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union (AU) on the African Union-European Union Summit to be held in Abidjan on November 29-30, was launched Monday in Addis Ababa, in the presence of a delegation of the Saharawi Republic led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed-Salem Ould-Salek.
The session was opened by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Guinea, in his capacity as president of the Executive Council, as well as the president of the AU Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat.