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SPS SADR/ITALY/AMINATOU HAIDAR Aminetou Haidar urges Morocco to put an end to violence and persecution against Saharawi populations 14.06.05
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Roma, 14/06/2006 (SPS) Saharawi human rights activist, Aminetou Haidar, urged Morocco to put an end to the violence and persecutions against the Saharawi populations in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara an reaffirmed the claims and peaceful struggle of the Saharawi people for their independence.
Undertaking a visit on Tuesday to Bologna, where she was received by the President of the Province, Beatrice Draghetti, and the authorities of the region of Emilia Romagna, Mrs. Aminetou Haidar launched a appeal "to put an end to the violence and abuses the Saharawis are subjected to by the Moroccan forces of occupation".
After having presented a testimony on the abuses, arbitrary arrests and torture to which the Saharawi human rights activists are submitted in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, the Saharawi militant expressed her concern seen "the continuous human rights violations about to change this peaceful civil protest to a violent movement".
On her side, Mrs. Draghetti reaffirmed the support and full assistance of the province for the struggle of the Saharawi people and for the implementation of a self-determination referendum planed for within the framework of the Baker Plan. She stressed that other concrete actions will be led by the local institutions within the framework of the solidarity with the Saharawi populations in the refugee camps.
Mrs. Aminetou Haidar undertakes since Friday a work visit to Italy within the framework of a capaign of mobilisation on the situation in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara.
She had had meetings with Italian authorities and political personalities and will be received Today in Roma by the Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies, Mr. Carlo Leoni. (SPS)
020/090/700/TRD 140920 Jun 06 SPS
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SPS OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION Saharawi citizens in Bojador denounce the Moroccan violations of their rights
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Bojador (occupied territories), 14/06/2006 (SPS) Saharawi citizens in the occupied city of Bojador denounced on Tuesday the human rights violations and intimidations inflicted by the Moroccan colonial authorities against them, and asked for "the immediate withdrawal" of the Moroccan occupation in the Western Sahara.
Five young Saharawis were deprived of their salaries, dismissed of their work by the Moroccan colonial authorities, "for having participated to demonstrations in favour of the independence of their country", they stressed in a press release, of which SPS received a copy.
The five victims are: Bachir Khaya, Khaya Soultana, Khaya El Waara, Khaya Manima and Sidi Brahim Zaza, whose salaries are stopped for more than four successive months, in an attempt of the Moroccan colonial authorities to "dissuade and force them to give up their legitimate right to self-determination and independence", the text added.
The Saharawis in the occupied city of Bojador also denounced the abduction of a young Saharawi while another one was arrested in the occupied city of Smara by Moroccan agents of the GUS.
The young Saharawi, Touini Saleh, who was arrested from his work was submitted to all forms of torture and interrogatories, according to information from the family of the victim.
The occupied city of Bojador is completely sealed by the different component of the Moroccan forces of occupation, it was indicated. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 141020 Jun 06 SPS
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SPS SADR/AFRICAN UNION/SUMMIT African summit in Abuja adopts a plan of fertilization of the continent’s soil
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Abuja, 14/06/2006 (SPS) African Union summit on fertilisation of the soil in Africa adopted, on Tuesday in Abuja, a plan of eleven resolutions for the fertilisation of the soil of the continent where the agriculture outcome remains very low, while about 200 millions persons suffer malnutrition in Africa, according to the expert.
The summit, which is held with the presence of the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, and eight other African Presidents of States, including the President of Congo, Denis Sassou N'Guesso, the current President of the African Union, the President of the African Commission, Alpha Oumar Konaré, decided to create a fund to buy fertilisers, and finance the access to organic and chemical manure and agricultural training so as to attain an annual growth of production of 6%.
"Africa has got all needed resources for the prosperity of its peoples. It has got vast lands, water in big quantities, varied climate and enough human resources. All these should only be reinforced with the use of science and technology", Mr. Abdelaziz underlined in a speech addressing his counterparts.
The Presidential delegation to the Summit in Abuja is composed of the Minister of development, Hamdi Khalil Meyara, the Ambassador to Nigeria, Alienne Habib Kentawi, and Mr. Abdati Breika, Councillor at he Presidency. (SPS) subscribe to the mailing list SPS-News:
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