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30, Sept 2007
Saharawi and Algerian Red Crescents "concerned"
about the shortage of food in the refuge camps
Saharawi and Algerian Red Crescents
expressed deep "concern" about the
drastic shortage in food in the Saharawi
refugee camps for September and the
increase of the percentage of
malnutrition and anaemia within the
Saharawi
(UPS)
...More
30, Sept 2007
Mr. Hmad Hamad receives "Jose Antonio Cozalez
Caraballo Award"
of solidarity
Saharawi human rights activist and
ex-political prisoners, Hmad Hamad,
received on Saturday the Spanish’s "Jose
Antonio Cozalez Caraballo Award" of
solidarity, in recognition to the
peaceful struggle of the Saharawi people
(UPS)
....More
The Head of the State calls on Ban Ki-Moon to
save the lives of Saharawi citizens
The President of the Republic, Mohamed
Abdelaziz, called on Ban Ki-Moon,
Wednesday, to "intervene urgently" so as
to save the lives of innocent Saharawi
citizens in the occupied territories of
Western Sahara
(UPS)
........More
30, Sept 2007
Two Saharawi political prisoners start a hunger
strike
in the prison of Tiznit
Two Saharawi political prisoners started
a hunger strike, on Tuesday, asking for
the amelioration of their conditions of
detention in the prison of Tiznit, as
well as their legitimate rights
guaranteed by International Conventions(UPS)
....More
22, Sept 2007
Helsinki: Mr. Yahiaoui Lamine , Polisario's
representative for the Nordic
Countries paid a visit to Helsinki,
Mr.
Yahiaoui Lamine , Polisario's representative for
the Nordic Countries paid a visit to Helsinki ,
during which he was received at the Finish
Foreign ministry by ANNA GEBREMEDHGIN , deputy
Director of Africa and middle East department
and PAULIINA HELLMAN-FIELD programme officer,
the discussion between the two parties focused
mainly on the last development of Western
Sahara conflict and the outcome of the two
rounds of direct negotiations between
Morocco and Polisario which took place in June
and August under the auspices
of UN .
Mr Lamine drew the attention Of. the Finnish
side to the fact that Western Sahara is a
decolonization question established by UN since
1963 as a Non-Self-Governing Territory ,thus
the Saharawi people should exercise their
inalienable right of self-determination and
decide the status of their country in a free ,
democratic and genuine way
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August, 2007
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Saharawis denounce Moroccan "intransigence"
and declare future round of talks
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The talks between POLISARIO
Front and Morocco, in the second
and last day of this second
round organised in Manhasset,
near New York, "mark the step"
and took place in "a heavy
atmosphere" because of the
intransigence of Morocco, which
is trying to impose its autonomy
plan, Saharawi officials
declared on Saturday to the
Algerian Press Service.
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Polisario seeks trust-building steps at
Sahara talks
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A U.N. proposal for Morocco and
the Polisario Front to discuss
confidence-building measures at
Western Sahara peace talks is a
welcome move that could help
lead to a solution, the
independence movement said on
Sunday. |
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10
August, 2007
9 August, 2007
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Spanish PP reaffirms its engagement in
favour of Saharawi people’s
self-determination
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The President of the Popular
Party (PP-opposition) and
Vice-President of the Parliament
of the Canary Islands, Mrs.
Cristina Tavis, reaffirmed on
Monday in Tenerife the
engagement of its party in
supporting Saharawi people’s
right to self-determination,
conforming to the UN’s
resolutions, a Saharawi source
indicated on Tuesday in Madrid.
(UPES)
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Saharawi representative in Washington
does not believe in Morocco’s good will
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Saharawi representative in
Washington, Mouloud Said,
declared that he does no believe
‘‘in the good will of Morocco’’
and fears that Rabat’s
tergiversations, intransigence
and delaying manœuvre lead to
‘‘the impasse and fail’’ the
negotiations launched last June
18 and 19 under the auspices of
the UN. June 18 and 19 under the
auspices of the UN.(UPES) |
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28 July, 2007
Appeal for
releasing Sahrawi students, political prisoners
in Morocco
Rabat-
Sahrawi students have appealed to the United
Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon to take "urgent
and immediate action" before the Moroccan
authorities to free the Sahrawi students and
political prisoners detained in Marocco's jails.
In a letter to the United Nations Secretary
General, the Sahrawi students who were
incarcerated in Inezgane prison in Agadir (600
km south of Rabat) asked for an "urgent and
immediate intervention of the UN Secretary
General to exert pressure on Moroccan
authorities to get all Sahrawi political
detainees released."
20 July, 2007
Western
Sahara: London supports a just solution
providing for the Sahrawi people’s self
determination
London – The United
Kingdom has reiterated, through its Secretary of
State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, responsible for the Middle East and North Africa,
Kim Howells, its support for the United Nations
efforts for a just political solution in the
Western Sahara conflict "which provide for the
self determination of the people of Western
Sahara."
7 July, 2007
Suspicious death of a Saharawi detainee in
Moroccan local prison in Ait Melloul
The Saharawi detainee Dada Ali Hamma Nafaa
passed away on Friday in a hospital in Agadir (Morocco)
after he was transferred in a critical state
from his cell in the local prison of Ait
Melloul.(UPES)
7 July, 2007
Moroccan authorities target Saharawi children in
the occupied zone of Western Sahara
Reports by Saharawi human rights organisations
asserted that Moroccan police is targeting,
arresting and torturing Saharawi children in the
occupied zones of Western Sahara.(UPES)
5
July, 2007
Morocco-Polisario negotiations: Peter Van Walsum
to brief UN Security Council soon
Washington
- Peter Van Walsum, UN Secretary-General’s
Special Envoy for Western Sahara, will brief the
United Nations in New York on 11 July about the
state and progress made in last 18-19 June’s
negotiations on Western Sahara, Wang Guangya, UN
Security Council’s President for July, announced
on Tuesday.(APS)
4
July, 2007
The Moroccan court of appeal in Marrakech
postponed on Monday the judgment of eight
Saharawi students, detained by Moroccan
authorities since May, to July the 16, indicated
the Collective of Saharawi Human Rights
Defenders (CODESA) in a press release.(UPES)
2
July, 2007
The Socialist
International backs Sahrawi people
self-determination
Brussels-
The Socialist International (SI) has welcomed
the direct negotiations between Morocco and
Polisario Front and called to make of the talks
a success in line with UN doctrine and by "paying
regard to (Sahrawi Pople)’s right to
self-determination," Sahrawi delegation for
Europe said on Monday. Endorsing the declaration
drawn up by the African Committee on Western
Sahara, in Accra, on June 16, the Socialist
International Council meeting held on Friday and
Saturday, in Geneva, has called to "spare no
effort to make these negotiations successful and
resolve the conflict in accordance with the UN
Charter’s principles and by taking into
consideration Sahrawi people’s right to
self-determination.(APS)
2 July, 2007
Western
Sahara: African Union for a final settlement of
the conflict
Accra – The African Union (AU) has expressed
Sunday the hope to see the current
Morocco-Polisario Front negotiations lead to the
final settlement of the Western Sahara conflict,
while urging the international community to
encourage both parties on this way. In the
report drafted by AU Commission Chairman Alpha
Oumar Konare, proposed for adoption at the 9th
ordinary session of the AU Assembly in Accra
(Ghana), it is mentioned that the direct
negotiations between the Kingdom of Morocco and
the Polisario Front must lead to a settlement of
the conflict, which persistence has not only
inflicted sufferings to the Sahrawi people, but
also hampered any significant cooperation
between countries of the sub-region.(APS)
1
July, 2007
Ahmed Boukhari: Ban Ki Moon’s report on
negotiations "objective and factual"
The report of the UN Secretary General, Ban
Ki-moon, on the negotiations between the two
parties to the conflict of Western Sahara,
POLISARIO Front and Morocco, last June the 18
and 19 in Manhasset, near New York, "is
objective and factual", POLISARIO Fronts’
representative to the UN, Ahmed Boukhari
declared Today.(UPES)
29 June, 2007
France provides Morocco with new missiles and
renews its air forces
Moroccan newspaper, Al Massa, reported that the
Moroccan army will receive from France, this
September, a set of missiles ASM 125Kg and 250
Kg, in addition to systems of radar, and another
missile system, NICA, for Moroccan planes.(UPES)
29 June, 2007
La stabilité au Maghreb "illusoire" sans le
respect de l’autodétermination du peuple
sahraoui
Madrid -
"La paix et la stabilité dans la région (du
Maghreb) et les intérêts fondamentaux de
l’Espagne demeureront illusoires tant que ne
sera pas respecté le droit du peuple sahraoui à
l'autodétermination, conformément à la légalité
internationale", souligne un document publié
récemment par la Fondation pour l’analyse et les
études sociales (FAES) que préside l'ancien
président du gouvernement espagnol, José Maria
Aznar. (APS)
28 June, 2007
Shield Mining granted prospecting permit in
Mauritania
By:
Matthew Hill
ASX-listed explorer Shield Mining (Shield) has
been granted a new permit for gold and base
metals exploration in Mauritania, it said on
Thursday.
The permit was granted to a wholly owned Shield
subsidiary and covered 1 446 km2.
“The granting of this licence is important to
Shield as we now have additional strike length
of the shear zone to explore an area extending
the company’s exploration footprint up to the
border of Western Sahara,” Shield CEO David
Netherway said in an emailed statement.
Shield is an Africa-focused gold and base metals
explorer.
Source:
Miningweekly.co.za
28 June, 2007
Western Sahara: Causes and costs of the
impasse and means of breakthrough discussed in
London
London –
The British Royal Institute of International
Affairs (Chatham House) hosted Tuesday a round
table on the causes and costs of the impasse in
Western Sahara and the means of breakthrough,
conducted by Dr Hue Roberts. Representatives and
ambassadors of the Polisario Front and Morocco,
in capacity of parties concerned by the conflict,
Algeria’s and Mauritania’s ambassadors, in
capacity of neighbour countries, as well as
diplomats in London, representatives the Foreign
Office and members of the local research centres
and organizations, attended the round table
which came after two reports recently issued by
non-governmental organization International
Crisis Group on the topic. (APS)
27 June, 2007
Aminatou Haidar in Portugal to raise awareness
about human rights in Western Sahara
Aminatou Haidar, eminent Saharawi human rights
activist and ex-political prisoner has recently
visited Portugal in a tour to raise awareness
about the flagrant human rights violations
committed by the Moroccan State in Western
Sahara. (UPES)
26 June, 2007
The Saharawi Republic signs the protocol of
constitution of African Union’s North Africa
regiment
The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz,
signed on Saturday at the presidency, the
protocol of constitution of African Union’s
North Africa peace and security regiment. (UPES)
26 June, 2007
Moroccan autonomy plan is contrary to
international legality (motion)
Dozen British parliamentarians signed a motion
that considers the Moroccan proposition of
autonomy "contrary to the principles of the
international legality". (UPES)
23 June, 2007
Great Britain
renews support to Sahrawi people’s right to
self-determination
London-
Great Britain renewed its support to the United
Nations (UN) efforts aiming at reaching a "just,
lasting and mutually-acceptable solution
guaranteeing the Sahrawi people's right to
self-determination.” This stance has been
reaffirmed, late this week, by British Foreign
Minister Margaret Beckett during a parliamentary
debate in the House of Commons, devoted to
foreign policy. Beckett responded to a question
on the British position concerning the Moroccan
plan of "autonomy" on Western Sahara, in the end
of the first round of the direst negotiations
held on current 18 and 19 June between both
parties in conflict in Manhasset (near New
York).(APS)
23 June, 2007
Support motion
for Sahrawi people at a debate of Italian
deputies’ chamber
Rome – A support motion
for Sahrawi people, calling to the respect of
the United Nations resolutions and the
organization of self- determination referendum
at the earliest, was set out Friday by
parliamentarians to be approved in the Italian
deputies’ chamber. This motion, set out by a
parliamentarian group from different political
parties, underscores that "the question of
Western Sahara issue can be solved only though
Sahrawi people freedom of expression to decide
their own future and through the organization of
a free referendum for the self determination, to
which the international community is very
committed now."(APS)
21 June, 2007
W. Sahara
delegation head to EL Khabar:
Political stand unchanged,
yet human relations get warmer
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FULL STORY
21 June, 2007
US grant $1 million-aid to Sahrawi refugees
Algiers-
The United States allocated $1 million in the
benefit of the Sahrawi refugees, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees,
and Migration Kelly Ryan announced, quoted on
Wednesday in a press release of the US embassy
to Algiers. This amount is a part of an overall
$7.4 million-donation of the US government,
devoted to the Bureau of World Food Programme
(WFP), the release added. "The contribution of
the US Bureau for Population, Refugees and
Migration granted to WFP a flexible mean to
rapidly respond to the crisis situations" of the
refugees, the US embassy indicated. (APS)
20
June, 2007
UN Sahara
talks stay alive
UNITED
NATIONS (Reuters) - Morocco and Western Sahara's
independence movement kept negotiations alive on
the future of the resource-rich territory,
agreeing on Tuesday to meet again in August
after two days of groundbreaking talks.(Reuters)
19
June, 2007
U.N. expected to propose future W. Sahara talks
UNITED
NATIONS (Reuters) - Ice-breaking talks over the
disputed Western Sahara were set to end on
Tuesday with U.N. mediators expected to propose
further rounds in what the world body said were
"very difficult" negotiations.(Reuters)
19 June, 2007
Intervention of POLISARIO Front during opening
session of negotiations
The President of the Saharawi delegation
participating to direct negotiations with
Morocco, held Monday in Manhasset, near New
York, under the auspices of the UN, call Morocco
back to reason and to the respect of the
international legality.(UPES)
(FULL >> )
19 June, 2007
Beginning of direct negotiations between
POLISARIO Front and Morocco in Manhasset
The Saharawi Coordinator with the MINURSO,
Mhamed Khaddad, affirmed in a statement to SPS,
that the direct negotiations between POLISARIO
Front and Morocco, started on Monday at 11.00
a.m in New York (15.00 GMT.
(UPES)
19 June, 2007
Mr. Sidati: "It is up to the Saharawi people,
alone, to decide over their future"
The member of the POLISARIO Front NS Minister
delegated to Europe, Mohamed Sidati, underlined
that "It is up to the Saharawi people, alone, to
decide over their future", at a moment when
POLISARIO Front and Morocco start direct
negotiations on Monday in New York under the
auspices of the UN. (UPES)
18 June, 2007
UN-led talks on Western Sahara get underway
Talks carried out under
United Nations auspices on Western Sahara began
today outside of New York, with the
participation of representatives of the parties
– Morocco and the Frente Polisario – along with
neighbours Algeria and Mauritania, a
spokesperson for the world body announced.
(UN)
FULL STORY>>
18 June, 2007
Saharawi President shows scepticism over Morocco
intention
Sahrawi President, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, said
in a speech delivered on the occasion of
commemorating the 37th anniversary of “Zemla”
uprising that he had doubts on the intention of
Morocco to make the success of talks due to be
held today between the Polisario Front and
Morocco in Manhasset in New York. (UPES)
18 June, 2007
Morocco and Polisario front meet on Western
Sahara"s future
Under pressure from the United Nations,
officials of the two sides and Mauritania will
hold two days of talks at a private estate near
New York. (UPES)
18 June, 2007
Reuters: Polisario attacks Moroccan W.Sahara
plan before talks
(Reuters) A bid to relaunch Western Saharan
peace efforts this week will fail if Morocco
insists its "colonial" plan offering only
autonomy be the starting point for talks, the
Polisario Front independence movement said on
Monday.(UPES)
17 June, 2007
Morocco-Polisario: Direct negotiations in
Manhasset (New York) under the UN auspices
Algiers- Morocco and
Polisario Front start on Monday in Manhasset,
near New York, direct negotiations under the
United Nations auspices to reach a "political
solution" for Western Sahara dispute,
guaranteeing its people’s right to
self-determination. In a letter to the UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Sahrawi
president declared that Polisario Front will
enter with a "sincere will" in the negotiations
with Morocco, with the aim of "Western Sahara
decolonization.” (APS)
17 June, 2007
Commemoration of the 37 anniversary of the Zemla
uprising on Sunday in Mheiriz
Polisario Front commemorates, on Sunday in
Mheiriz region (South East- Western Sahara), the
37th anniversary of the historical Zemla
uprising that took place in 1970 against the
Spanish occupation and resulted in dozens
injured victims, detainees and the disappearance
of the leader of the Saharawi movement of
liberation then, Sidi Brahim Bassiri.
(UPES)
17 June, 2007
French lawyers call to strengthen mobilisation
of solidarity with Sahrawi people
Paris-
Two lawyers from Paris Court, Aline Chanu and
France Weyl, who went from 6 to 9 May 2007 to Al
Ayun and Smara to attend, as observers, the
trial of Sahrawi human rights activist Ennaama
Asfari, call to reinforce mobilisation for
Sahrawi people and emphasize the importance of
having foreign observers at the trial of the
Sahrawis, to inform on human rights violations.
(APS)
15 June, 2007
Moroccan repression does not hep in creating the
needed climate for negotiations, Mr. Abdelaziz
warns
The
Moroccan repression against the Saharawi
citizens in the occupied territories does not
help in creating the needed climate for the
negotiations between POLISARIO Front and
Morocco, expected this Monday in New York,
warned the President of the Republic, Mohamed
Abdelaziz, in a letter addressed on Monday to
the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-mon.
(UPES)
15 June, 2007
Associated Press reporter arrested by Moroccan
authorities in El Aaiun
Moroccan
colonial authorities arrested Associated Press
reporter, John Thorne, on Thursday, and
confiscated his camera while he was covering a
peaceful demonstration in the occupied city of
El Aaiun, capital of Western Sahara.
(UPES)
14 June, 2007
Nine Sahrawis
students heavily sentenced in Rabat
Rabat- Nine Sahrawi
students, arrested on 17 May after they had been
beaten by Moroccan police which violently
scattered their sit-in, were sentenced Tuesday
to eight-year imprisonment along with a
500-dirham fine (about €50) by the court of
first instance of Rabat, judicial sources said
Wednesday. The trial of the nine Sahrawi
students, beaten then arrested on May 17 by
Moroccan police at Rabat Campus during an
independist demonstration, has been postponed
several times by the court of first instance of.
(APS)
12
June, 2007
The
Polisario Front announced the composition of the delegation
participating in the negotiations of Western Sahara.
Frente POLISARIO
announced Sunday, on the composition of the delegation Saharawi which is
expected to participate in direct negotiations with Morocco on 18 June
in New York under United Nations auspices. El Mahfoud Ali
Baiba, Mohamed Khadad, Ibrahim Ghali, El Boukhari
Ahmed, EL Bachir
Asghayer, Dr. Sidi
Mohamed Omar (Chahid El Hafed)
12
June, 2007
Western Sahara: "Solemn and urgent" appeal to UN Secretary General
Algiers – Polisario Front made Monday a “solemn and urgent appeal” to
the United Nations to “seize the exceptional opportunity” of
negotiations with Morocco, to start on June 18 in Manhasset, near New
York, in order to “get Rabat respect the objectives” of the talks. “The
Sahrawis side makes a solemn and urgent appeal to the UN Secretary
General, to his personal envoy and to Security Council members to seize
the opportunity Manhasset negotiations are offering,” Sahrawi Foreign
Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Salek told a news conference in Algiers.(APS)
10 June,
2007
Self-determination Referendum, solution for Western Sahara's issue,
according to Russian working group
Moscow- The settlement of Western Sahara "decolonization" issue depends
on the "holding of a free and regular self-determination referendum,"
noted a Russian working group in a research guide issued in Moscow,
which APS got a sum up on Sunday. Western Saharan issue "depends on the
Sahrawi people practice of their right to self-determination and the
strict respect of UN General Assembly resolutions, deciding the
organisation of a free and regular self-determination referendum,"
according to the document entitled "Western Sahara: Commitment to
independence."
Western Sahara: All settlement has to be compatible with Sahrawis' right
to self-determination
Washington– Assistant Secretary of State for Near
Eastern Affairs David Welch asserted that all settlement for Western
Sahara issue had to take into consideration Saharawi people's concerns
and be compatible to its rights to self-determination. Speaking before
members of the House of Representative’s Foreign Affairs Committee, on
Wednesday, David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern
Affairs, said “All settlement of Western Sahara has also to take into
account Sahrawi people’ concerns and be compatible to its rights to
self-determination.” The address was posted on the State Department’s
website. For Welch, it is imperative that the two sides (Morocco and
Polisario Front), which agreed to meet under the auspices of the United
Nations before the end of June, enter in direct negotiations without
pre-conditions
8 June, 2007
UN:
Special Committee of 24 considers Western Sahara issue
Washington – The
Special Committee in charge of examining the situation of the
implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to
Colonial Countries and Peoples, named also Committee of 24, which has
resumed Tuesday its sessions, in UN headquarters, has examined Wednesday
Western Sahara question, according to a diplomatic source in New York.
(APS)
7 June, 2007
Western Sahara:
Ban Ki-Moon hopes direct negotiations would contribute to reaching «
fair and lasting solution »
Madrid
– UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon expressed his wish Wednesday that the
parties to Western Sahara conflict, Morocco and Polisario Front, would
build on the direct negotiations starting as from June 18, in New York,
to reach a “fair and lasting solution.” “I sincerely hope the parties to
the conflict would build on this opportunity and impetus to talk about
all their concerns and interests, and that the contact group and the
countries it is made up of would facilitate that task, jointly with the
United Nations, to reach a fair and lasting solution to the problem,”
Ban Ki-Moon said at a joint news conference with the President of the
Spanish Government, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. (APS)
President
Bouteflika: Western Sahara's problem, a blockade for
Maghreb
edification
 Algiers-
President of the Republic Abdelaziz
Bouteflika declared Tuesday in Algiers,
that Western Sahara's problem represents a blockade
element for Maghreb edification's process on which depends the
future of the region as a whole. "Western Sahara's problem
represents a hampering element for Maghreb edification process
on which depends the future of all the region. But it is more
and more certain that this group can't be built to the detriment
of the Sahrawi people and their legitimate and inalienable
rights," the Head of the State pointed out during the toast
given on the occasion of the official banquet he offered at the
honour of President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega. (APS) |
6 June, 2007
Morocco and
Polisario Front invited to UN-Led Talks
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited Morocco and the Frente
Polisario to talks, along with their neighbours Algeria and
Mauritania, later this month in an attempt to resolve the
long-standing dispute over the status of Western Sahara. (UPES) |
4 June, 2007
Western
Sahara: Will to create an international pro-Sahrawi "lobby"
Algiers- Some
organisations of the civil society in Africa, Europe and Latin America,
which uphold the Sahrawis' right to self-determination will unite to
form an international "lobby", declared Sunday Belgium Senator Pierre
Galand, President of the European Coordination of Sahrawi people
supporting committees. Galand stressed that he had spoken in the morning
to representatives of the supporting committees of Namibia, Tanzania and
the Pan-African Union of Youth, which were present beside him during a
news conference in Algiers. (APS)
Maghreb at risk if
Sahara talks fail-Polisario
......> More
Reuters South Africa, South
Africa
By William Maclean
 ALGIERS, May 31 (Reuters)
Failure to break the long deadlock over Western Sahara in peace talks
starting next month could destabilise north Africa and reignite
Polisario's armed struggle, the independence movement's leader said on
Thursday.
Western Sahara: Letters of solidarity
associations to Sarkozy and Rice, at the eve of their visits to
Madrid
Madrid- The Coordination of Spanish associations of solidarity
with Western Sahara's people (CEAS-Sahara) sent a letter to
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US State Secretary
Condoleeza Rice, on the eve of their visits to Madrid,
respectively on 31 May and 1st June, in which it called them to
make the international legality prevail concerning Western
Sahara's conflict. (APS)
Tuesday 29 May, 2007
Mr.
Abdelaziz calls on the UN Secretary General to protect the Saharawis
human rights
 The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, interpellated
the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, to intervene urgently
vis-à-vis the Moroccan authorities so as to guarantee the
respect of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the
Saharawi people in the occupied territories of the Western
Sahara, in the south of Morocco and in the Moroccan universitie
(UPES) |
Tuesday 29 May, 2007
Spanish
artists call on Mr. Zapatero to support "justice" and "legality"
Spanish artists called on the President of the Spanish
Socialist government, Mr. José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, to stand by the
side of "justice" and "legality" with regard to the conflict of Western
Sahara by supporting the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination
and independence.(UPES)
Tuesday 29 May, 2007
Saharawi people’s self-determination: a French NGO calls on Morocco to
"come back to reason"
The Association of the friends of the
Saharawi Republic (AA-RASD) called on the Moroccan authorities
on Monday to "come back to reason by stopping their repressive
policy" against the Saharawi people, who are "uprising for their
legitimate right to self-determination".(UPES)
Morocco blocks
access to YouTube
27.05.07 Since yesterday Maroc
Telecom has blocked all access to Youtube. The Moroccan blogosphere (blogoma)
is totally surprised by the move and angered. There were no reasons
given why Youtube was blocked. But the speculations are that it might
have to do something with the presence of Polisario-clips (Polisario
being the Western Sahara independence movement) or because of some
videos that were criticized the king. (Maghribism) Fierce
suppression of Sahrawi students in Morocco: A heartrending testimony
Paris-
Rhab Amidan, a Sahrawi student at the University of Marrakesh, denounced
the wild suppression which the Sahrawi students are subject to in the
Moroccan universities, having made numerous victims and arrests, in a
letter of testimony released on Sunday in Paris. "A multitude of bloody
events are taking place in the Moroccan universities," the young student
wrote to a Norwegian journalist and published by the French Association
of Friendship and Solidarity with Africa's Peoples (AFASPA).
A
seminar in Johannesburg on human rights situation in Western Sahara
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The South African Commission of Human Rights organised on Friday
in its seat in Johannesburg a seminar on the human rights
situation in Western Sahara, indicated a source from the
Saharawi Embassy in Pretoria (UPES) |
43 Norwegian NGO denounce Moroccan
repression against Saharawi students43
Norwegian Non Governmental Organisations sent a letter to human rights
organisations based ion London in which they denounced the Moroccan repressive
practices against the Saharawi students, who were oppressed because of their
nationalist positions and their support to the POLISARIO Front, as the unique
and legitimate representative of the Saharawi people.
Protesters call for a free
Western Sahara
About
100 people gathered at the Moroccan Embassy in Pretoria in support of
the Western Sahara's independence from Morocco.
The march, which saw supporters from the Young Communist League (YCL)
and the Congress of SA Trade Union, was also attended by ANC Youth
League president Fikile Mbalula.
He said the African continent cannot celebrate Africa Day while other
people were not yet free.
YCL president Buti Manamela said Morocco should end its form of
colonialism on the people of Western Sahara.
Morocco invaded Western Sahara in 1975 after Spain withdrew its 90 year
occupation.
Morocco then moved in to claim Western Sahara as its territory.
Resolution 1754:
Unique solution to Western Sahara conflict
Rome- Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Ugo Intini has reiterated his
government's support for the latest UN Security Council resolution on
Western Sahara, calling on both Morocco and the Polisario Front to enter
into direct negotiations without prior conditions to find a solution to
the conflict. "The
resolution 1754 adopted last 30 April, urging the parties to enter
into direct negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations, is
the unique way to achieve a just, lasting and mutually acceptable
political solution, which will provide for telf-determinhe sation of
Western Sahara's people," Intini underscored at the National Cooperation
Conference held recently in Pisa.
European MP accuses Morocco of "violating
systematically the international law"
Madrid- Willy Meyer, a European MP from Izquierda Unida Party (United
Left, 3rd political force in Spain) accused Monday in Strasbourg,
Morocco of "violating systematically the international law" and appealed
the European institutions not "to turn blind eyes" on the situation
prevailing in Western Sahara's occupied territories. "The European
institutions should not turn blind eyes. We are talking about a country,
Morocco, which is, systematically, violating the international law and
human rights in occupied territories" of Western Sahara, Meyer declared,
quoted in a release of Izquierda Unida, issued on Tuesday in Madrid.
Sahrawi President: Morocco "fears"
negotiations
Mijek (Sahrawi freed territories) – Morocco "fears" the forthcoming
negotiations on Western Sahara, scheduled to be conducted by the United
Nations in the first half of June, Sahrawi President and Polisario Front
Secretary-General Mohamed Abdelaziz considered on Monday. Morocco "fears
the negotiations, for it doesn’t want its public opinion to know that it
de facto recognizes the Polisario Front as the Sahrawi people’s sole and
legitimate representative," he told a news conference conducted in the
Sahrawi freed territories in Mijek, where the celebrations of the 34th
anniversary of the Sahrawi armed struggle outbreak are taking place.
Polisario Front: "No encouraging sign"
from Morocco about negotiations
Mijek (Sahrawi freed territories)- Morocco has not demonstrated "any
encouraging sign" about the future negotiations with Polisario Front,
which should be held under the auspices of the United Nations next June,
Sahrawi President and Polisario Front's Secretary General Mohamed
Abdelaziz bemoaned Sunday. "So far, we have not perceived any
encouraging sign from the other side," the Sahrawi president said in a
speech delivered, in Mijek, in the Sahrawi freed territories, on the
occasion of the 34th anniversary of the Sahrawi armed fight outbreak and
the Frente Polisario creation.
 Sahrawis celebrate on Sunday, in the freed territories, the 34th
anniversary of Polisario Front
Mijek (Saharwi freed territories)- The Sahrawis celebrate on Sunday the
34th anniversary of the creation of Polisario Front and the outbreak of
the armed struggle for independence, by a series of military and civil
events in Mijek, in the Sahrawi freed territories. Polisario Front had
triggered off on May 20th, 1973 the armed struggle against the Spanish
occupation of Western Sahara, then against the Moroccan army which
invaded this territory in 1975 after the Spanish withdrawal.
Polisario-Morocco negotiations
scheduled for June
Sahrawi Refugee Camps – Direct negotiations between the Polisario Front
and Morocco, scheduled in the last UN Security Council resolution on
Western Sahara, will take place in the first half of June, an official
Sahrawi source announced Thursday. Peter Van Walsum, personal envoy of
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in Western Sahara, "has informed us
that negotiations will take place between 1st and 15 June," Sahrawi
Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar told a news conference in the
Sahrawi refugee camps.
Morocco-Polisario
negotiations: UN cancels Van Walsum's preparatory visit Sahrawi refugees' camps- The United Nations
Organization (UNO) cancelled the visit that Peter Van Walsum, special
envoy of the UN Secretary-General should pay to Morocco and to Polisario
Front direction, in the Saharwi refugees camps, in view to prepare the
negotiations between the two parties, source in the Sahrawi presidency
told on Wednesday to APS. "The presidency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic
Republic (SADR) was officially informed by the UN, on Wednesday, about
the cancellation of this visit," the same source added.
 Rome-
A hundred demonstrators took part Saturday to a sit-in organized in
front of Morocco's embassy in Rome to call for Western Sahara's
self-determination. During this ultimate meeting of the cycle of
protests in front of the Moroccan diplomatic and consular
representations in Italy, which coincides with the second anniversary of
the Sahrawi Intifada, demonstrators came from the region of
Emilia-Romagna and Rome, displaying Sahrawi flags and banners calling up
to the Sahrawi people's self-determination and the "end of violence in
the territories occupied by Morocco." (APS)
 Sit-in in Rome out of solidarity with the Saharwi people
Rome- A sit-in claiming the applying of self-determination referendum
for the Sahrawi people and the end of suppression in Western Sahara's
occupied territories is talking place on Saturday in front of Morocco's
embassy in Rome. This demonstration, organized to the appeal of several
associations of solidarity with the Sahrawi people and the international
Bureau of Human Rights in the Western Sahara (birdhso), coincides with
the celebration of second anniversary of the Sahrawi Intifadha (uprising),
triggered on May 21st, 2005 in occupied territories by Morocco and
within the framework of the permanent solidarity which shows the network
of support to the peaceful fight of the Sahrawi people settled in the
peninsula as a whole. (APS)
Western Sahara: UN Mission to visit
the region between 15 and 20 May
Madrid- A United Nations mission will pay a visit to the region between
15 and 20 May to evoke the "preparations" for the direct negotiations
between Morocco and Polisario Front and "modalities of their progress,"
SADR Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar announced on Tuesday evening
in Madrid. "Polisario Front welcomed with satisfaction the UN Security
Council last resolution and expressed his readiness to enter in these
negotiations with honesty and sincerity," Taleb Omar recalled during a
conference held within the framework of the Sahrawi conflict days
organized by the public Universities of Madrid, under the subject "Policy
and cooperation. Time of solutions for Western Sahara."(APS)
Julian Harston in Algiers: Western
Sahara issue has "lingered for too long"
Algiers- The Western Saharan issue "has lingered for too long," declared
on Monday in Algiers Julian Harston, new Special Rpresentative of the UN
Secretary-General for Western Sahara. "There is a problem in Western
Sahara that has lingered for too long," Harston told the press shortly
after his arrival at Houari-Boumediene international airport for an
informative visit to Algeria, as part of a tour in the "neighbouring
countries" of Western Sahara. (APS)
"The
wall of disgrace, A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
The Sahrawi human rights activist
Hmad Hammad
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