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United Nations welcomes Moroccan pullout from Western Sahara buffer area

United Nations welcomes Moroccan pullout from Western Sahara buffer area

The United Nations is welcoming the pullout of Moroccan security forces from the tense border strip in southern Western Sahara and is calling on the Polisario Front independence movement to also withdraw its fighters. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Monday that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke to Morocco’s King Mohammed VI and a Polisario representative late […]

Sahrawi official reveals extent of Morocco plunder of Sahrawi resources

Sahrawi official reveals extent of Morocco plunder of Sahrawi resources

President of the Sahrawi Petroleum and Mining Authority, Ghali Zbeir, revealed Saturday in Algiers the extent of Morocco plundering of the Sahrawi resources, notably phosphate and fishery products. He warned against the continuing complicity of certain foreign companies despite the binding ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Speaking to the […]

Cuban delegation on working visit to Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Cuban delegation on working visit to Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

A Cuban delegation led by Cuban ambassador to SADR Raul Barzaga Navas is on a working visit to the Saharawi Republic. The purpose of the visit of this delegation in the Sahrawi refugee camps is to convey a message of solidarity to the President of the Council of State and Ministers of the Republic of […]

Polisario Front submits to Guterres following Morocco’s deliberate provocations in Alguergarat

Polisario Front submits to Guterres following Morocco’s deliberate provocations in Alguergarat

The Polisario Front has informed the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres of the risks resulting from stalemate in the peace process and the fraught situation prevailing in the buffer zone of Alguergarat. Representative of the Polisario Front Ahmed Boukhari held talks Friday at the UN headquarters with the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, to whom […]

Polisario Front representative received by New UN Secretary General

Polisario Front representative received by New UN Secretary General

The new UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, received Friday at the UN headquarters in New York, the representative of the Polisario Front, Boukhari Ahmed, who handed him an “urgent” from the President of the Republic, Brahim Ghali, indicated a staement of the Ministry of Information. The message of the President of the Republic related to “the […]

Panama congratulates Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic on its 41st Anniversary

Panama congratulates Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic on its 41st Anniversary

The President of the Republic and Secretary – General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Gali, received a congratulatory message from the President of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela Rodríguez, on the occasion of the 41st Anniversary of the proclamation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). “On the occasion of the 41 years of the proclamation […]

United States congressmen on visit to Sahrawi refugee camps

United States congressmen on visit to Sahrawi refugee camps

About ten US senators and members of the US House of Representatives will pay a visit to the Sahrawi refugee camps on Sunday, Polisario Front’s representation and Algerian diplomats in Washington told APS. The US Congress delegation will meet with Sahrawi officials and see by themselves the situation in which Sahrawi refugees have been living […]

Security Council concerned about deadlock in Western Sahara peace process

Security Council concerned about deadlock in Western Sahara peace process

The Security Council, which gathered Wednesday, expressed its concern about the deadlock in Western Sahara peace process and the security risk in El Guergarat buffer zone. “Several members of the Security Council, including permanent members, expressed their preoccupation concerning the lack of negotiations between the two parties to the conflict,” the Polisario Front representative to […]

Human rights in occupied Western Sahara: Moroccan repression continues in 2016

Human rights in occupied Western Sahara: Moroccan repression continues in 2016

The Moroccan Authorities continued to repress the peaceful demonstrations in Western Sahara in 2016, and to expel journalists, foreign activists and human rights activists and to bar them entry to this territory, said the latest annual report of Amnesty International, published on Tuesday. In its assessment of the world’s human rights in 2016, Amnesty International […]

EU should seize Morocco’s accession to AU to reopen negotiations on Western Sahara conflict

EU should seize Morocco’s accession to AU to reopen negotiations on Western Sahara conflict

The European Union (EU) should seize the opportunity of Morocco’s accession to the African Union (AU) to reopen negotiations between the Sahrawi authorities and Morocco with a view to resolving the conflict, said EU MP Diane Dodds. In a written question to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica […]

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