September 2019

Shaheed al-Hafed (refugee camps)- President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, affirmed Sunday that the Sahrawi cause is growing stronger at the regional, continental and international levels in the face of the isolation imposed by the Moroccan occupier and its desperate attempts to get in the way of the Sahrawi people’s diplomatic victories.

New York (UN), September 28, 2019 (SPS) - Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Lesotho, Mr. Tom Thabane, called for an end to the occupation and the declaration of independence for Western Sahara, the last colony in the African continent.

New York (United Nations), Sept 26, 2019 (SPS) - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres submitted a report to the General Assembly on the rights of peoples to self-determination, in which he informed the deliberative body of the UN organization of the progress of the Western Sahara issue.

Stockholm (Sweden) 25 September 2019 (SPS)- Saharawi human rights defender, Mrs. Aminatou Haidar, was announced as one of four winners of the prestigious Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”, during a press conference organised by the Award’s organisers at the international Press Centre at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Badajoz (Extremadura), Sept 24, 2019 (SPS) - the University of Extremadura hosted series of sensitization sessions to raise awareness on the heroic struggle of the Saharawi people in the different faculties of the University of Extremadura

The sessions of sensitization will be held from, September 23 and until October 8.they will be presented by The Saharawi delegate to the said region Hameiduha Emhamed .

Girona (Catalonia) September 21, 2019 (SPS) – The Catalan Liberepress Association awarded its annual prize to the just struggle of the Sahrawi people for freedom and independence, among the nine honorees this year in the fields of human rights, environment, media, music, art and society.

Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja

The struggle for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara has taken a new dimension as the proponents of self-rule said that they would henceforth adopt the method used in ending the inglorious apartheid regime in South Africa.

Tifariti (Liberated Sahrawi Territories); Sept 18; 2019 (SPS) - A Mauritanian citizen was injured Monday following the explosion of a Moroccan fragmentation bomb in an area close to the Moroccan wall, at about 90km from the Sahrawi region of Tifariti.

According to the Sahrawi Office of Mine Action Coordination SMACO, it is a Mauritanian citizen called Ali Yaslem, born in 1989, injured in the explosion of a Moroccan fragmentation bomb.

El Aaiún (occupied capital of Western Sahara), Sept 17, 2019 (SPS) -The Saharawi political prisoners of the Gdeim Izik Group have announced Monday that they will begin a simultaneous hunger strike in several Moroccan prisons in protest of their continued arbitrary detention.

Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories) 16 September 2019 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Ghali, has sent a message of felicitation to his Nicaraguan counterpart, Mr. José Daniel Ortega Savedra, on the occasion of the 198th anniversary of his country's independence.

Harare (Zimbabwe), September 14, 2019 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, was received Saturday by his Zimbabwean counterpart, Mr. Emmerson Mnangagwa, in the capital of Zimbabwe, Harare.

The meeting dealt with bilateral relations between the two countries as well as issues of common concern.

Harare (Zimbabwe), 13 September 2019 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, arrived Friday evening in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, to attend the funeral of late President Robert Mugabe.

The President of the Republic was received on the floor of the Robert Mugabe International Airport by Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Sibusiso Moyo.