Month January 2023

PUSL.- At an audience on 24 January last, the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Cravinho, in the Foreign Affairs and Portuguese Communities Committee of the Portuguese Parliament, the Minister was questioned about the position and actions of the Portuguese government…

PUSL.- According to the Spanish and Moroccan press the United States Under-Secretary of State for International Affairs, Michele Sison, reiterated during her visit to Rabat, the autonomy plan for Western Sahara, presented by Morocco as a “serious, credible and realistic” solution.…

BRUSSELS – APS.dz – The request to ban Moroccan representatives from the European Parliament (EP) during the investigation into the corruption scandal that has engulfed the institution will be debated in committee on Thursday, the Belgian daily Le Soir reported.…

swissinfo.ch.- Brussels, Jan 25 (EFE) – The European Parliament has cancelled or postponed all trips it had planned for the first six months of the year to Morocco or Qatar as a result of the bribery scandal that has affected…

TSA.dz.- Relations between Morocco and France, already chilly since the discovery of the spying on President Emmanuel Macron’s phone, have deteriorated further after the European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning attacks on freedoms in the kingdom. The resolution, voted on…

Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), January 24, 2023 (SPS) – The Sahrawi government expressed its condemnation of the Moroccan repressive practices to which the Sahrawi human rights delegation that took part in the 16th Congress of the Polisario Front was subjected to,…

Shahid Al-Hafed, January 24, 2023 (SPS) – The National Secretariat of the Polisario Front held yesterday, its first session after being elected during the sixteenth Congress, under the supervision of the President of the Republic and the Secretary-General of the…

SMACO (Sahrawi Mine Action Coordination Office) published this week a report on drone attacks by the Moroccan army since the resumption of the war in November 2020. This report reveals surprising and worrying data showing the escalation of the use…

TSA – On a visit to Algiers, the American Under Secretary of State Michelle Sisson spoke to the press on Tuesday about Algeria’s regional role and the situation of human rights and freedoms in the country. “Algeria has played a…

PUSL .- Once again a visit is made to discuss among other things the “question of Western Sahara” which includes Morocco and Algeria, but not the Sahara or Mauritania. This time, it is the US Under-Secretary of State, but it is…

Europress.- The US Under-Secretary of State for International Organizational Affairs, Michele Sison, will travel to Algeria and Morocco from 21 to 26 January to discuss the Western Sahara dispute. “Sison will meet with senior officials, UN representatives and civil society leaders,”…

INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO DENOUNCE THE PLUNDERING OF NATURAL RESOURCES IN WESTERN SAHARA “Western Sahara is not for sale” (WSNS), is an international campaign against the plundering of natural resources in Western Sahara, promoted by different Saharawi civil society organizations from…

PUSL.- On 20 January last night, Teemu Matinpuro, director of the Finnish Peace Committee, was on a leisure and holiday trip to Western Sahara, where he was going to visit a long time friend, when he was prevented by the…

Press release Gonfreville l’Orcher, Sunday 22 January 2023, 3pm. Those present at the General Assembly of the Association of Friends of the SADR leave Normandy and the municipal centre, strengthened by the discussions and commitments made during these two days.…

The sixteenth Congress of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro was held under the slogan ” Escalation of fighting to expel the occupation and complete sovereignty ” from 13 to 19 January 2023…

Mohamed OULD CHERIF Director of the Centre for Studies and Documentation, Ahmed Baba MISKÉ Paris, 13 January 2023 The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation into allegations of money laundering, corruption and participation in a criminal organisation involving…

BRUSSELS – APS.dz – A trip of members of the Belgian Parliament to Morocco and the occupied Saharawi territories, paid for by Rabat, has created outrage in Belgium, in the midst of a corruption scandal in the European Parliament in…

ALGIERS – APS.dz.- Algerian President, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, sent on Sunday a message of congratulations to Mr. Brahim Ghali, following his re-election as Secretary General of the Polisario Front and President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). “Mr. President…

Dakhla (Refugee Camps), 23 January 2023 (SPS) –  The committee in charge of elections announced Sunday evening the final results of the elections of the members of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, at the closing session of the 16th…

Dakhla (Refugee Camps), January 20, 2023 (SPS) – The conferees of the Sixteenth Congress re-elected Mr. Brahim Ghali as Secretary-General of the Polisario Front for a three-year term. The Rapporteur of the Election Committee, Mr. Mohamed Mohamed Ismail, highlighted that…

tsa-algerie.dz.- The President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune reiterated on Thursday Algeria’s support for the struggle of the Saharawi people for self-determination. “We will not give up the Saharawi cause, whatever the price”, the Head of State said on Thursday…

Dakhla (Refugee Camps), January 20, 2023 (SPS) – The Election Committee presented last night, two candidates for the post of Secretary-General of the Polisario Front. The committee announced the two candidates Brahim Ghali and Bashir Mustafa El-Sayed for the post of…