April 2018

Madrid, April 30, 2018 (SPS) - The Coordination of Solidarity Associations with the Sahara (CEAS-Sahara) has expressed in a statement "its utmost concern regarding the situation of the French citizen Claude Mangin Asfari, who belongs to the French Association of Friendship with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and wife of one of the Saharawi political prisoners of the Gdeim Izik group."

Algiers, April 28, 2018 (SPS) - Algeria “notes with satisfaction” the new resolution on the issue of Western Sahara that the United Nations Security Council adopted Friday and underlines that this resolution reaffirms that there is no other solution to the conflict but that which enables the Saharawi people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Abdelaziz Benali Cherif in a statement following the adopt

Stockholm, April 28, 2018 (SPS) - Representatives of Swedish political parties called Thursday on their government to implement the recommendation that had been approved by the Swedish Parliament calling for recognition of the Saharawi State, during a debate on the situation in the Middle East and North Africa.

New York, April 27, 2018 (SPS) -  The UN Security Council called on the parties to the conflict, Morocco and Western Sahara to resume direct negotiations, dubbing "unacceptable" the status quo resulting from the stalled peace process.

New York, April 27, 2018 (SPS) - Negotiations about the draft resolution on occupied Western Sahara, continue Thursday in Security Council where member countries demanded a text oriented towards the political settlement of the conflict.

The text presented by the U.S. has not got any consensus within this UN body.

London, April 26, 2018 (SPS) - More than 1.5 million tonnes of phosphate of the occupied Western Sahara, worth over USD142 million, were illegally exported by Morocco in 2017, according to a new annual report of the Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW), published on Wednesday.

The 5th report of WSRW on Western Sahara phosphate underlines a “total exported volume from Western Sahara in 2017 of 1.59 million tonnes, illegal shipped in 27 bulk vessels.”

Madrid, April 23, 2018 (SPS) - The parliament of Navarre (Spain) passed an institutional statement in which it reiterated its solidarity with the Sahrawi political prisoners in the Moroccan prisons and called for their immediate release, said Monday this institution, while denouncing all the legal proceedings as well as all the political trials conducted by the Moroccan authorities against the Sahrawi population.

Addis Ababa, April 22, 2018 (SPS) - A delegation of the Ministry of National Defense has taken part in the 8th meeting of North African experts on April 22-24, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopian.

The delegation is led by Brahim Moulay Ahmed Al-Laili, accompanied by Mohamed Fadel Didi and Najem Al-Daya, alongside delegations from Algeria, Egypt and Libya.

Oslo, April 22, 2018 (SPS) - Norwegian Foreign Minister Marie Eriksen stressed on Thursday that all the United Nations missions should monitor and report on human rights, including its mission in Western Sahara (MINURSO).

New York (UN), April 21, 2018 (SPS) - The United Nations has emphasized Thursday, in York, that the liberated Sahrawi territories of Bir Lahlou are Tifariti do not fall within the buffer zone of El Guergarat as falsely claimed by Morocco.

"I can say that neither Bir Lahlou nor Tifariti fall within the buffer strip," Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for the UN secretary General, said in his daily press briefing of April 19.

Madrid, April 19, 2018 (SPS) - A specialized Spanish medical team has just visited the Sahrawi refugee camps to perform surgeries and treat kidney diseases, the Andalusian health service said.

This 19th Andalusian medical mission from this Spanish region will continue until 24 April.

The mission also includes various drugs and equipment necessary for surgeries, added the source.

Abuja (Nigeria), April 18, 2018 (SPS) - the President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali has received a message of condolences from the Nigerian Movement for the Liberation of Western Sahara following the tragic military aircraft crash of the Algerian plane where 257 passengers, among them Sahrawis, lost their lives.