Month May 2018

PUSL.- Paloma Lopez Bermejo, Spanish MEP from Izquierda Unida and vice-president of the Intergroup for Western Sahara asked the European Commission about the continued medical neglect of Ouakari Eloifi (also spelled Wakari El Wafi), a Saharawi political prisoner of the…

aps.dz.- ADDIS-ABEBA- The African Union (AU) decided on Saturday to ban the entry of all members of a Moroccan delegation, having tried to break into the meeting of foreign ministers of 15 African states including the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic…

Monday 21 May 2018, Brussels On May 17th, 2018 the Trade committee of the European Parliament held a debate on the state of play of the negotiations with Morocco on the amendment of the protocols on rules of origin under…

Tifariti (Sahrawi Liberated Territories), May 20, 2018 (SPS) The President of the Republic received, on Sunday in the liberated town of Tifariti, the new Ambassador Edwin George Mandaza, who handed him copies of his credentials as Ambassador of the Republic…

PUSL.- Claude mangin, french citizen and wife of Saharawi political prisoner Naama Asfari suspended yesterday the hunger strike that started on 17 April. This 62 years old teacher saw herself obliged to make a hunger strike to make the French…

PUSL.- After almost a month of the hunger strike of Claude Mangin, wife of the Saharawi activist Naama Asfari, the government and the French president asked Morocco to reconsider the ban on entry of this French citizen into Moroccan territory.…

PUSL.- Tuesday in the European parliament in Brussels during a session of droi (subcommittee for human rights of the European parliament) dedicated to the human rights situation in Morocco and Western Sahara several MEPs expressed their serious concerns about the…

Since 7 may, the Saharawi political prisoner Sidi Abdallahi Abbahah has been in an unknown location after being taken by the Moroccan authorities barefoot and without any belongings from the Kenitra prison. It was thought that he had been transferred…

Portuguese Parliament approved on 11th May a vote of solidarity with the Saharawi people for the respect and concretization of their right to self-determination presented by the Parliamentary Group of the Portuguese Communist Party . The approved vote affirms that…

jacarandafm.com.- EFF vows to remove Morocco from AU. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) says the Embassy of Morocco does not belong in South Africa. EFF members picketed outside the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco in Pretoria on Thursday, against what…

In a letter addressed to the President of the French Republic, Mr Emmanuel Macron, Solidarity Galega Co Pobo Saharaui (SOGAPS-Galicia), calls on presideny Macron to intervene in order for the Moroccan authorities to allow Mrs. Mangin to enter Morocco and…

The court of first instance in El Ayoun postponed to May 14 the trial of Laaroussi Ndour, arbitrarily detained on 2nd of May. The photographer and editor of the Bentilli Center, one of several Sahrawi media groups in the occupied…

The organizations Freiheit für die Westsahara e.V. , terre des hommes Germany, terre des hommes Switzerland, Medico international, Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker ELDH / EJDM Europäische Juristen für Demokratie und Menschenrechte have appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron for support…

Sidi Abdallahi Abbahah and Mohamed Bourial, Sahrawi political prisoners from the Gdeim Izik group were transferred this morning from Kenitra prison to Tiflet 2. According to information from the family, Abdallahi Abbahah and Mohamed Bourial were very ill treated. Once…

The UNMS ( National Union of the Saharawi Women ) sent a letter to the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, calling on his intervention so that the Moroccan authorities allow Claude Mangin to visit her husband Naama Asfari political prisoner…

We bring you greetings of this Nelson Mandela Centennial Celebration Year and affirm our continued support of his courageous legacy of solidarity with the struggling masses of the world, wherever they may be and whatever injustice they may be facing;…

The Moroccan occupation authorities detained Laaroussi Ndour, photographer and publisher of the Bentilli Center, one of several Sahrawi media groups who daily report and film human rights violations in the occupied territories of Western Sahara committed by Morocco. The arrest…

An appeal that already has over 200 signatures from artists, lawyers, politicians and members of various associations addressed to Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, supporting Claude Mangin-Asfari , a French citizen on hunger strike since April 18thto obtain…

Ministry of Information of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Press release After the announcement by Morocco of the rupture of its diplomatic relations with Iran, the Frente POLISARIO would like to clarify the following: 1. The Frente POLISARIO noting the…