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La Rioja (Spain), Feb 17, 2021 (SPS) - The Spanish workers' committees called on the government of their country to "do everything possible to implement the United Nations resolutions to allow the Saharawi people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination and independence, in accordance with UN Resolution 1415 ". "During the talks which took place between Jorge Ruano, General Secretary of the Spanish workers' committees of the Spanish province" La Rioja ", and Abdellah Hammad, the Sahrawi regional representative in the aforementioned province. Both parties discussed the war in the Western Sahara and human rights conditions that have worsened since November 13, and in light of what is happening these days in the occupied city of Boujdour ". SPS Related a...

جمعية مراقبة الثروات وحماية البيئة بالصحراء الغربية تعبر عن تضامنها مع الناشطة الحقوقية سلطانة خيا spsrasd.info/news/ar/articles/2021/03/21/32202.html Dublin (Ireland), Feb 18, 2021 (SPS) - Front Line Defenders has strongly condemned the increased harassment by Moroccan authorities against Sahrawi human rights defenders living in Western Sahara over the past few months. Front Line slammed the physical surveillance of prominent human rights defenders, and the use of Excessive force to disperse peaceful protests, ill-treatment of political prisoners and impose arbitrary disciplinary measures against human rights defenders during their work. SPS Related articles French demonstrators denounce their government support to Moroccan regimePresident Brahim Gali urges...

Shaheed Al-Hafed, 19 February 2021 (SPS) - International Coordinator of World March of Women (WMW), Ms Graca samu, has called on the African Union and the United Nations to urgently intervene to ensure the protection of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara. She urged the African Union and the United Nations to end human rights violations in Western Sahara and to support the Sahrawi women's struggle for freedom and independence. “The struggle of the Sahrawi people is our struggle and the self-determination of the Sahrawi people is an international priority for us, and we feel responsible for all the suffering and violations that the Sahrawi people undergo,” she said.  “we call on the African Union, the United Nations and all international organizatio...

Bojador (Occupied Zones), Feb 18, 2021 (SPS) - The Saharawi human rights activist Sultana Sidbrahim Khaya stated that “the Moroccan occupation authorities intend to physically eliminate her, after several attempts that began on February 13 with an attack wild to the house where she and her family live. Sultana Khaya called on international human rights organizations to provide the defenseless Sahrawi civilians with the necessary protection from the repressive practices of the Moroccan regime”. The Saharawi activist related in detail the aggression perpetrated by the occupation forces against her family's home, which has been under siege for more than three months, prohibiting any type of visits to the family.  "The occupied cities of Western Sahara have become a...

Dakhla (Refugee Camps), 21 March 2021 (SPS) -  Minister of Public Health, National Secretariat member, Khaira Balahi Abbad, has called on citizens to exercise caution.The Minister, accompanied by a government delegation, in a tour that led her Saturday to the wilaya of Dakhla in the refugee camps, called on citizens to exercise caution, be vigilant and apply preventive measures, especially with the registration of new cases of the Coronavirus.On Thursday, the National Committee for the Prevention of the Coronavirus held an emergency meeting devoted to examining ways to take urgent action to combat the pandemic. Related articles Brahim Ghali hails international community's support to Sahrawi causeSaharawi student and political prisoner health situation El Uafi El U...

Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), 21 March 2021 (SPS) - The units of the Sahrawi People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) have launched new attacks against the positions of the Moroccan occupation army along the berm, according to the military communiqué released Saturday by the Sahrawi Ministry of Defense.“On Friday, March 19, 2021, units of the Sahrawi Army carried out heavy shelling targeting positions of the occupation forces in the area of Arkiz, in the sector of Kelta and another shelling that targeted the positions of the Moroccan occupation army in the area of Akarara Hadid in the sector of Al-Farsiyah,” according to the military communiqué.On Saturday, the same source added, “Sahrawi fighters shelled a Moroccan forces centre in the Akarara Al-Arbi area in the Atouizki sector” a...

Addis Ababa, 22 March 2021 (SPS) - Sahrawi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Salam Ould Salek, said Saturday that the decision of the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) on the conflict in Western Sahara had "torpedoed the Moroccan strategy and destroyed its ambitions to defeat the UN process of decolonization of Western Sahara."In a statement to the Sahrawi News Agency (SPS) in reaction to the rejection by Morocco, through its Minister of Foreign Affairs, of the decision of the PSC in favor of the right of the Sahrawi people, Ould Salek recalled that during the 14th Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government to "silence the arms", "the AU decided to assume its responsibilities, as a guarantee of peace and stability in the Sahara.Welcoming this res...

Algiers, March 23, 2021 (SPS) - The African Union (AU) is called upon to take coercive measures against any member who does not respect its decisions in order to preserve its credibility, the ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic said on Monday in Algiers, Abdelkader Taleb Omar. In a statement to APS, in reaction to the rejection by the Kingdom of Morocco of the latest decision of the AU Peace and Security Council (CPS) on the issue of Western Sahara, Taleb Omar stated that this decision "comes at the moment timely ", especially after the blocking of the UN plan to resolve the conflict, stating that" the African Union and all its organs must enforce their decisions with concrete measures. " "After 30 years of postponement and delay by Morocco, the AU and its Council...

Algiers, March 23, 2021 (SPS) - Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum on Monday called the latest decision of the African Union Peace and Security Council on Western Sahara as "very important" and an achievement for establish security and stability in North Africa. In a statement to APS, Boukadoum said that the AU CPS, at the end of its last meeting at the level of heads of state and government on the conflict in Western Sahara, had made a "very important" decision. For Boukadoum, it took the initiative to accompany the UN in the process of solving the conflict in Western Sahara, underlining that the UN body "is not the only one in charge of this question, but also the AU, which has recovered today this cause that interests above all two African member states of the AU ", referring t...