August 2018

Zaragoza, August 31, 2018 (SPS) -The Moroccan police has prevented on Thursday the entrance in El Aaiún of the lawyers Ana Sebastián and Pablo Jiménez, has informed to EFE a spokesman of the Aragonese Observatory for the Western Sahara, to which the lawyers belong.

Cape Town (South Africa), August 31, 2018 (SPS) - Algeria and South Africa reaffirmed their support for the cause of the Saharawi people at a press conference jointly hosted by Foreign Minister Abdelkader Messahel, and his South African counterpart, Ms. Lindiwe Sisulu.

Madrid, August 30, 2018 (SPS) - The State Coordinating Committee of Associations in Solidarity with the Sahrawi people (CEAS-Sahara) has demanded in a statement on the occasion of  the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances that MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) ensure access to places where there are reports of mass graves or burials of dead or disappeared persons and that independent teams can carry out this identif

Occupied Aaiun,  29 August 2018 (SPS) - The Association for the Protection of Sahrawi Prisoners in Moroccan Jails has sounded an terrifying alarm an over the  serious health situation of Sahrawi political prisoners who are on hunger strike in Moroccan prisons, especially the prison of Ait Melloul.

Gienbra, August 29, 2018 (SPS) - The Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions of the United Nations has asked Morocco for the immediate release of Saharawi journalist Mohamed Bambari, member of the Saharawi journalist group Equipe Media, which reported on violations of rights Humans and the struggle for self-determination of the Saharawi people in the occupied city of Dakhla.

Dakhla (Refugee Camps), August 27, 2018 (SPS) - The Third Congress of the Sahrawi Students’ Union concluded Monday in the wilaya of Dakhla, Sahrawi refugee camps, following three days of deliberation, stressing the continuation of the liberation struggle to achieve the objectives of the Saharawi people in self-determination and independence.

Dakhla (refugee camps) August 26, 2018 (SPS) - The Third International Conference of Solidarity with the Saharawi Students held Saturday in Dakhla, refugee camps, under the theme "the respect of international law for the liberation of the last colony in Africa" called for the intervention of the international community to put an end to the suffering of the Sahrawi people by enabling them to exercise their right to self-determination.

Harare (Zimbabwe), August 25, 2018 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghal,i arrived at Harare International Airport to attend the inauguration ceremony of Zimbabwean President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa.

The President of the Republic was received by Zimbabwean Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, Ms. Petronella Kagonye, and Chargé d'affaires of the Sahrawi Embassy in Harare Al-Tayeb Al-Siddiq.

Bir-Lehlu, February 25, 2018 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, sent a message of congratulations to the President of the Republic of Uruguay, H.E. Tabaré Ramón Vázquez Rosas, on the occasion of the 193rd Independence Day.

Bir-Lehlu, August 20, 2018 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, issued a presidential decree on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, which includes an amnesty order for a number of prisoners of penal institutions sentenced under the terms of force, said Monday a statement of the Presidency of the Republic.

Windhoek (Namibia), August 19, 2018 (SPS) - South Africa will host the Solidarity Conference with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) later this year, according to the final communiqué of the 38th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

El-Aaiun (Occupied Territories), August 18, 2018 (SPS) - Fifteen Saharawi activists have been victims of aggression by Moroccan occupation authorities as soon as they arrived in the airport of the occupied Western Sahara town of El-Aaiun.

The Activists were participating in the ninth Summer University of Polisario Front and SADR (Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic) executives, at the University of Boumerdes (50-km east of Algiers).