Geneva, 30 September 2022 (SPSA) - A Saharawi delegation attending the works of the 51st session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, in a series of meetings with the representatives of international delegations and organizations, shed light on the abuses committed by Moroccan authorities in the occupied Sahrawi territories, depriving Western Sahara people from their right to independence.
Gaborone, 26 September 2022 (SPS) - The ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) to Botswana, Malainin Lakhal, has indicated that the ruling by the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights on the need to find a permanent solution to the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara, was a proof of the failure of the Moroccan policy of buying consciences to legitimize this occupation.
New York (United Nations), 26 September 2022 (SPS) - Algerian Foreign Minister, Mr. Ramtane Lamamra, reiterated Algeria's firm position towards the inalienable right of the people of Western Sahara to self-determination, calling on the United Nations to intensify its efforts to find a final solution to the conflict that would enable the Sahrawi people to self-determination.
Maputo, 25 September 2022 (SPS) - The Polisario Front welcomed Saturday night the "principled and historic" position of Mozambique and the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), which expressed their support for the just struggle of the Saharawi people for self-determination.
Birlahlou (liberated territories) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has welcomed the statements of Kenyan President William Ruto who affirmed his country's commitment to relations with the Sahrawi Republic, highlighting the "strong" will to "deepen" the historical relations of friendship and solidarity between the two countries.
Bir Lehlou (Saharawi Republic) 23 September 2022 (SPS)- In a landmark ruling of 22 September 2022, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights denounced the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara as a serious violation of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination.
The Court ruled that “both the UN and the AU recognise the situation of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic as one of occupation and consider its territory as one of those territories whose decolonisation process is not yet fully completed.”
Juba (South Sudan) 22 Sebtember 2022 (SPS)- The Ministry of Foreign Relations and International Cooperation of the Republic of South Sudan issued a statement, Thursday, in response to the Kingdom of Morocco’s attempts to discourage it from resuming relations with the Sahrawi Republic, after the recent announcement of the resumption of Diplomatic Relations between the Republic of South Sudan and the Saharawi Republic.
New York (United Nations), 22 September 2022 (SPS) - The Algerian delegation attending the 77th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York (20-23 September) exercised Thursday its right of reply to counter "the false and misleading allegations" of Morocco regarding the Western Sahara issue.
Dili (Timor-Leste) 22 September 2022 (SPS) - Timor-Leste’s Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) Party, the biggest party in the actual government coalition in Timor-Leste has approved a resolution in its latest V Congress held recently in the Capital Dili supporting the right of the people of Western Sahara to Self-determination and Independence.
The Full Resolution reads:
New York (United Nations) 22 September 2022 (SPS)- The President of the Republic of Namibia declared support of his country for the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination, stressing that the delay in implementing UN resolutions to settle the question of Western Sahara is an embarrassment to the forehead of the international community.
Addressing the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, President Hage Geingob, in his speech, described the lack of action and the continuation of the conflict in Western Sahara as a collective shame. (SPS)
Chahid Elhafed (Saharawi Republic) 22 September 2022 (SPS)- The Saharawi cause is gaining unprecedented support which continues to grow throughout the world, including through the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with some countries showing their commitment to respect international law and the right to self-determination and sovereignty of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), and through the presence of the cause in debates and media worldwide.
New York (United Nations) 22 september 2022 (SPS)- he President of the Republic of Peru, Pedro Castillo, advocated the inalienable right to self-determination of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic at the United Nations General Assembly, in his speech on Tuesday.
New York (United Nations) 22 September 2022 (SPS)- The Republic of South Sudan issued an official statement, on September 20, 2022, declaring its decision to resume normal diplomatic relations with the Saharawi Republic.
Following is the text of the official statement, of which SPS received a copy:
PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN TO THE UNITED NATIONS NEW YORK
Press Statement
Brussels (Belgium) 22 September 2022 (SPS)- Polisario Front, the legitimate representative of the Saharawi people, welcomed, on Tuesday, the decision of the French Council of State on agricultural imports from the territory of occupied Western Sahara.
Bir Lehlou (Saharawi Republic) 22 September 2022 (SPS)– The Republic of South Sudan has decided to resume its diplomatic relations with the Saharawi Republic, according to a statement issued by the Saharawi Ministry of Foreign Affairs last Tuesday.
Oficial Statement
Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic – Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Republic of South Sudan decides to resume diplomatic relations with the Saharawi Republic
Birlahlou (Liberated Territories), 19 September 2022 (SPS) - Units of the Sahrawi People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) carried out on Monday new attacks against the positions of the Moroccan occupation forces in the sector of El Beggari which suffered considerable human and material losses, indicated the Ministry of Defense in its military communiqué N 635.
"Advanced detachments of the Sahrawi Army carried out attacks targeting the entrenchments of the Moroccan occupying forces in the region of Oum Degen (sector of El Beggari)," the same source said.
Shaheed Al-Hafed (Refugee Camps), 19 September 2022 (SPS) - Representatives of foreign delegations in solidarity with the Sahrawi cause reiterated Sunday, in Shaheed al-Hafed, the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination by working on the creation of the appropriate conditions likely to enable them to exercise their will freely.
Birlahlou (Liberated Territories), 19 September 2022 (SPS) - The Sahrawi government welcomed Monday Kenya's "historic" and "principled" position in favor of the Sahrawi Republic's (SADR) right to sovereignty and its people's right to freedom and independence, which Nairobi defends in all regional and international events.
Shaheed Al Hafedh (refugee camps), 18 September 2022 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghlai, affirmed Saturday that the Sahrawi cause is experiencing major developments after the resumption of the armed struggle, warning against a Makhzen-Zionist connivance against security and stability in the whole region.
Shahid El-Hafed, (Refugee Camps), 18 September 2022 (SPS) - Representatives of foreign delegations to an international conference on support for the Sahrawi issue, held Saturday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reiterated their unconditional solidarity with the Sahrawi people and its just cause.
The participants, representing progressive movements in Europe and Latin America, tackled on the first day of the conference themes relating to Sahrawi people's legitimate struggle for its independence and Morocco's plunder of Sahrawi natural resources.