November 2017

Madrid, Nov 12, 2017 (SPS) -  Thousand of  people representing Spanish solidarity associations with the Saharawi people and members of the Saharawi community living in Spain demonstrated Saturday in Madrid to demand the holding of a referendum on self-determination in Western Sahara as soon as possible.
The protesters waved Sahrawi flags, banners in which slogans are written asking for peace for the Saharawi people, the right to self-determination and justice and respect for human rights in the occupied Saharawi territories."

Shaheed El-Hafed, November 12, 2017 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, on Saturday oversaw a meeting of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front of its sixth ordinary session.
The session discusses the report of the Permanent Bureau of the National Secretariat, which held a meeting on Wednesday, and different points related to the developments of the national cause on various fronts.

Las Palmas (Canary Islands), November 12, 2017 (SPS) - PODEMOS at the Parliament of the Canary Islands has registered a proposition, in which the regional chamber is required to urge the Spanish Government to demonstrate opposition to the European Commission on the claim to renegotiate the trade agreement between the European Union and Morocco, which would legitimize the plundering of the natural resources of Western Sahara.
The proposal coincides with the 42nd anniversary of the evacuation of Western Sahara by the Spanish army and the Moroccan invasion of the territory.

San José (Costa Rica), November 11, 2017 (SPS) - Saharawi Ambassador, Suliman Tieb Henan, took part in the Conference of the Progressive Alliance, which was inaugurated Friday in the City of San José, Costa Rica, according to a statement of the SADR Embassy in Nicaragua.
The Conference is attended by progressive political parties from European, Africa and Latin American countries, many of which are in power.

Bir-Lahlou (Liberated Zones), Nov 11, 2017 (SPS) – President of the Republic Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, sent Saturday a congratulatory message to President of the Republic of Angola, Joao Lourenco, on the occasion of the 42th anniversary of the Independence Day of the Republic of Angola.

Chahid El Hafed (Saharawi Refugee Camps), Nov 10, 2017 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali, received on Friday at the headquarters of the presidency the Special Representative for Western Sahara and MINURSO Chief, Kim Bolduc, who is making a farewell visit to the Sahrawi authorities.

Algiers, Nov 10, 2017 (SPS) -.The Minister of Foreign, Mr. Mohamed Salem Uld Salek, appealed to all the actors of the Western Sahara conflict (United Nations and the African Union) to assume their responsibilities in the search for a solution to the dispute in Western Sahara.

Chahid El Hafed, Nov 10, 2017 (SPS) - The Council of Ministers has yesterday approved a framework agreement for cooperation between the Saharawi Republic and the Republic of Nicaragua in view of its submission to the National Council for ratification.

Kneitra (Morocco), Nov 10, 2017 (SPS) - The Saharawi political prisoners of the Gdeim Izik Group, jailed in the Kneitra Central Prison, begin a alarming hunger strike, on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of the savage dismantling of the Gdeim Izik Camp.

Mèrida, Nov 10, 2017 (SPS) - The General Secretary of the Workers' Union UGT of Extremadura, Patro Sanchez Escobar, received the Saharawi Delegation to Extremadura, Hameiduha Emhamed and Alali Elmami at the UGT headquarters in Mérida. María José Ladera, secretary of equality and social policies attended the meeting.
The trade union leaders expressed the solidarity of their union with the struggle of the Saharawi people for their self-determination and independence, according to sources from the Saharawi Delegation to Extremadura.SPS
 

Arusha (Tanzania), Nov 10, 2017 (SPS) - The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) has attended the African Third Judicial Dialogue, held in Arusha (Tanzania), represented by the Secretary General of the Sahrawi Women's Union, Fatma El Mehdi, who is also the vice president of the Economic, Social and Cultural Council of the African Union.

Chahid El Hafed-, Nov 10, 2017 (SPS) - The settlement of the conflict in Western Sahara starts with “the recovery by the Sahrawi people of their full sovereignty over all their territories, in accordance with the charter and decision of the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU), enshrining the right of colonized peoples and countries to independence and the respect of the borders inherited from the independence,” affirmed the national secretariat of the Frente POLISARIO, insisting on the Sahrawi people’s inalienable right to independence and self-determinatio

London, Nov 10, 2017 (SPS)- Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) has denounced the Moroccan wind energy projects in the occupied Sahrawi territories, underlining that the Moroccan and foreign companies involved in these projects are systematically violating the decisions of the European Court of Justice and the United Nations.

Chahid El Hafed, Nov 09, 2017 (SPS) - The Council of Ministers met Thursday, under the chairmanship of the Secretary General of Frente POLISARIO, President of the Republic, Brahim Gali, to discuss the draft of 2018 Government Program, as well as the last developments of the national cause.
Sahrawi President called to mobilize all the resources and the efforts in order to ensure the success the program and to meet the challenges and implement programs.
 

Chahid El-Hafed, Nov 09, 2017 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Brahim Gali, chaired Wednesday a meeting of the Permanent Bureau of the National Secretariat of the Frente POLISARIO, addressed internal and external issues related to the national cause.

Harare (Zimbabwe), Nov 09, 2017 (SPS) - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Zimbabwe has reiterated yesterday his country unwavering support and commitment to the Sahrawi cause a letter received by Sahrawi Foreign Minister, Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, from his counterpart in Zimbabwe, Walter Mzembi, responding to the congratulations received by his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs of his country.
“I wish to reassure you on my country’s unwavering support and commitment to the Sahrwi cause” Walter Mzembi says in his letter

New York, Nov 09, 2017 (SPS) - United Nations Spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said Tuesday that new UN envoy for Western Sahara Horst Kohler was pursuing his mediation mission in Western Sahara, in conformity with the mandate conferred on him by the Security Council.
"There is a mandate from the Security Council for the Personal Envoy as well as the… as well as MINURSO, and we will follow that mandate and continue our work," said the Spokesman in a news briefing.

Algiers, Nov 09, 2017 (SPS) - Sahrawi Foreign Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Salek on Wednesday called on all stakeholders in the Western Sahara conflict, namely the United Nations, the African Union and mainly France, to assume their responsibilities and find a lasting solution.
He also denounced the complicity between Paris and Morocco and their desire to undermine and block the peace process in Western Sahara.

New York (USA), Nov 08, 2017 (SPS) – the UN New envoy to Western Sahara,  Horst Koehler is continuing the task of mediating in Western Sahara, which has been mandated by the Security Council, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday.
"The Security Council has assigned the Personal Envoy and MINURSO a mission and we will continue this mission and continue our work," Antonio Guterres’s spokesman, told a news briefing.

London, Nov. 08 (SPS) - The British organization Adala UK on Tuesday has criticized the Moroccan authorities for transferring the Sahrawi political prisoner from Gdeim Izik Group without having medically examined him previously.