Month October 2019

Bir-Lahlou, 30 October 2019 (SPS) – The UN peace process in Western Sahara is at a critical juncture and the Frente Polisario is left with no option but to reconsider its engagement in the process, said the Frente Polisario in…

PUSL.- The Security Council vote that took place today adopted resolution 2494 renewing the mandate of MINURSO (Referendum Mission in Western Sahara). Both Russia and South Africa abstained. Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council and is the…

Baku, Oct. 25 (EFE) .- The interim president of Algeria, Abdelkader Bensalah, today called on the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, to expedite the appointment of a new special envoy for Western Sahara. “Algeria urges the UN Secretary General to…

PUSL.- The saharawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik group detained in Kenitra Prison began today, Friday a protest hunger strike of 48h in solidarity with El Bachir Boutanguiza. Mr. Boutanguiza was put in an isolation cell on Monday 21st October…

PUSL.- The group of young students that have been protesting since 1st of October in Rabat in front of the University building claiming their right of enrollment were attacked this Thursday evening by the Moroccan authorities. As you can hear…

PUSL .- During the formal meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa Summit, João Lourenço Head of State of Angola welcomed the holding of the first Russia-Africa Summit of Heads of State and Government (which…

PUSL.- MEP João Ferreira of the Portuguese Communist Party requested further clarification regarding Frederica Morgherini’s response to the human rights violations that took place in El Aaiun, the capital of occupied Western Sahara that resulted in the death of a…

PUSL.- Relay for Freedom of Saharawi Political Prisoners and Independence of Western Sahara A group of Spanish athletes and a Saharawi will run 284 km between Paris and Brussels on relay for the release of Saharawi political prisoners and the…

PUSL (Lisbon) .- On October 21, the Africana Studia journal – Western Sahara: policies OF the impass of the Center for African Studies of the University of Porto was presented at ISCTE, Lisbon University. The director of Africana Studia, Prof.…

PUSL.- Next Monday, October 21st, the African Studia magazine – Western Sahara: The Politics of Stalemate,  will be presented  at ISCTE, Lisbon at 18h00. The presentation will feature a debate with Maitre Olfa Ouled, lawyer of the Gdeim Izik Saharawi political…

PUSL – Only few days before the meeting of the UN Security Council, the Saharawi community and American supporters have gathered in front of the French embassy in New York in protest of the continued support of France of the…

PUSL .-After the invasion of Western Sahara in 1975 by the Moroccan Kingdom and until the cease-fire agreement in 1991, an endless list of war crimes were committed by the Moroccan invaders against the Saharawi civil population, amongst them the…

Place de la République, Paris, France, 12/10/2019 Presse Release Sahrawi diaspora organizations in Europe and inFrance in particular, as well assolidarity based associations, organizations and people supporting the Sahrawis in France, Europe and Africa gathered on October 12. 2019, a…

PUSL.- According to information received by PUSL from Saharawi activist Hmad Hamad, the Saharawi population broke the iron siege imposed by the Moroccan occupation forces in the city of El Aaiun and took to the streets to celebrate the Saharawi…

PUSL.- On October 12, 1975, the Saharawi National Unity was proclaimed in the Ain Bentili region. Day in which all the Saharawis announced their adherence to the principles of the Polisario Front and their total willingness to sacrifice and to…

PUSL.- A group of 20 young students have been protesting for two weeks in Rabat in front of the University building claiming their right to enroll. Eight students were prevented from enrolling at Rabat University in law and social science…

PUSL.- Maitre Olfa Ouled, the attorney of Saharawi political prisoner Abdel Jalil Laaroussi, said her client underwent a surgery this morning in Rabat. We recall that the UN Committee against Torture issued urgent measures demanded by the attorney of Mr.…

PUSL.- Walid Al-Salik, Saharawi journalist was sentenced yesterday, 9th of October, to six year in prison in the Moroccan appeal court of El Aaiun, capital of occupied Western Sahara. The Saharawi journalist and human rights activist was accused of the…

lIn a Note Verbal addressed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Relations of the Kingdom of Lesotho to its Saharawi counterpart on Tuesday, Lesotho rejected Moroccan allegations filled with false interpretations propagated by Morocco in various media regarding…

MADRID (Sputnik) – The still Spanish Foreign Minister, Josep Borrell, was approved by most European Parliament groups to become the next High Representative of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy. Borrell passed this October 7 the well-known ‘examination’ of…

PUSL.- Ontem, passaram 9 anos desde que a 8 de outubro de 2010, um pequeno grupo de cidadãos saharauis nos territórios ocupados do Sahara Ocidental ergueu as suas tendas no deserto a aproximadamente 13 km de El Aaiun, capital do…

PUSL.- The Coordination of the Associations of the Saharawi Community in France and the French Platform of Solidarity with the People of the Western Sahara will organize a demonstration on 12th October at the Place de la République in Paris…