Month October 2022

PUSL.- Today, October 31, marks the 47th anniversary of the Moroccan military invasion of Western Sahara. On October 31, 1975 tank and armored regiments of the Moroccan army invaded Western Sahara, starting with Hauza and Djederia (east of Smara). The…

TSA.dz.- Is Morocco planning to invade the liberated Western Saharan territories east of the separation wall? This is at least what the kingdom’s ambassador to the UN, Omar Hilale, suggests. Western Sahara is de facto divided into two territories, the…

Lisbon, 29 October 2022 In participating in the work of your 11th Congress, I would like on behalf of all Saharawi women, both those who resist in the occupied zones and those who endure the difficulties of exile in the…

ALGIERS – APS.dz .- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Community Abroad issued a statement on Saturday following the vote by the Security Council of a new resolution on the United Nations Mission for the Referendum on Self-Determination…

PUSL – Lisbon.- Congresso do Movimento Democrático de Mulheres (MDM) aprova moção pelo imediato cumprimento do direito do povo saharaui à autodeterminação A moção foi aprovada por unanimidade e aclamação pelas participantes mo Congresso onde Sultana Khaya teve oportunidade de…

PUSL.- On Friday 27, Sérgio Sousa Pinto president of the Committee of Foreign Affairs and Portuguese Communities, received the Saharawi activist, Sultana Khaya in the Parliament, at the request of the Democratic Movement of Women. Sultana Khaya is the visible…

PUSL.- Abdallah Abbahah, Saharawi political prisoner of the group Gdeim Izik was once again the victim of reprisals by the Moroccan authorities in Tiflet2 prison near Rabat. He was subjected to ill-treatment, intimidation and threats by the Moroccan authorities and…

PUSL.- On 27 October Paulo Silva, Mayor of Seixal, received the Saharawi human rights activist, Sultana Khaya, in the town hall. Mrs Khaya had the opportunity to expose the atrocities to which she has been subjected since she was young…

PUSL.- The MEP from the Free Party, Rui Tavares, met today Sultana Khaya, a Saharawi activist and one of the best known faces of the resistance against Morocco’s illegal occupation of part of Western Sahara. Sultana Khaya told not only…

The Parliamentary Group of the PCP (Portuguese Communist Party) received today the Saharawi activist, Sultana Khaya. MP Paula Santos met with the human rights activist from Western Sahara who gave a first hand account of the human rights abuses to…

cgtp.pt.- Sultana Khaya, one of the most visible faces of the resistance to the occupation of the Western Sahara Territories by the Kingdom of Morocco, is visiting Portugal at the invitation of the MDM – Women’s Democratic Movement on the…

PUSL.- Yesterday the Saharawi activist Sultana Khaya was received by the Committee of Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees of the Portuguese Parliament. This hearing is part of a wide-ranging programme during Sultana Khaya’s stay in Portugal at the invitation…

mun-setubal.p .- The deputy mayor of Setúbal, Carla Guerreiro, expressed on 27, in a meeting with the activist Sultana Khaya, in the Paços do Concelho, the solidarity of the municipality with Western Sahara, occupied for 47 years by Morocco. “There…

Ambassador Jeffrey F. DeLaurentis Senior Advisor for Security Council Affairs New York, New York October 27, 2022 AS DELIVERED Thank you, Mr. President. The United States is pleased to see the Council reaffirm its support for the Personal Envoy of…

EXPLANATION OF VOTE THE RENEWAL OF THE MANDATE OF THE UNITED NATIONS MISSION FOR THE REFERENDUM IN WESTERN SAHARA AMBASSADOR MARTIN KIMANI, PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE THURSDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2022 Kenya fully supports the work of the United Nations Mission for the…

Explanation of vote by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy after UNSC vote on a draft resolution on renewal of the mandate of MINURSO Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nationsrussiaun.ru 27 October 2022 Mr.President, Russia abstained…

Resolution 2654 (2022) Adopted by the Security Council at its 9168th meeting, on 27 October 2022 The Security Council, Recalling and reaffirming all its previous resolutions on Western Sahara, Reaffirming its strong support for the efforts of the Secretary-General and…

Communiqué  [Bir Lehlou, Sahrawi Republic – 27 October 2022] On 27 October 2022, the Security Council adopted resolution 2654 (2022) whereby it decided to extend the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) until…

(SPS) –  Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney clarified yesterday that his country’s government is in line with United Nations resolutions that consider Western Sahara a non-independent territory. In a response before the Irish Parliament, to a written question submitted by Representative…

Sultana Khaya , Saharawi activist and victim of serious violations by the Moroccan authorities of occupation arrived in Lisbon today. The activist who is in Europe denouncing the situation of the Saharawi people in the occupied territories, arrived today in…

NEW YORK (United Nations) – The UN Security Council will meet Thursday in New York to discuss the renewal of the mandate of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), which expires on 31 October, amid calls…

Algeria has imposed sanctions since Spain embraced Morocco’s position on Western Sahara – and it’s costing Madrid middleeasteye.net.- Algerian sanctions imposed in the wake of Spain’s change of position on Western Sahara have cost Madrid more than $258m in export revenue, according to the latest…