Follow AllAfrica News: Western Sahara, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/all-africa-news-western-sahara Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:19:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nASxniC--w_t2W0GqTRQSgk [SPS] Santo Domingo -- President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has asked Spain to invite Western Sahara to the Ibero-American summit, while calling for African countries with different ties to Latin America to be granted the status of observer countries, including Western Sahara, which is he says the victim of an "injustice".]]> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:51:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nASxniC--w_t2W0GqTRQSgk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nDRVLbp0is_c-4DA87rvhPr [MAP] Geneva -- The Moroccan delegation deplored, on Monday at the United Nations Palace in Geneva, the attitude of the South African delegation, which is working for a well-known agenda in the region, by supporting the vain destabilizing aims of an armed separatist group.]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2023 05:27:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nDRVLbp0is_c-4DA87rvhPr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nCGMrL53EUfkSRFMxTa8z4W [SPS] New York (United Nations) -- In a press release issued Yesterday, Dr Sidi Mohamed Omar, member of the National Secretariat, Representative of the Frente POLISARIO at the United Nations and Coordinator with MINURSO, stated that the letter recently sent by the representative of the occupying state of Morocco at the United Nations to the President of the Security Council is yet another example of this person's obsession with fabrication, slander, and misrepresentation.]]> Thu, 16 Mar 2023 01:39:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nCGMrL53EUfkSRFMxTa8z4W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nCGMrL53EUfkZONpYks2fGs [SPS] Brussels -- The European Commission reaffirmed that the position of the European Union (EU) on the conflict in Western Sahara is "known and remains unchanged", underlining its support for the efforts of the United Nations (UN) to achieve "a just political solution", in accordance with the Security Council resolutions.]]> Thu, 16 Mar 2023 01:39:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nCGMrL53EUfkZONpYks2fGs https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nBgMINHTf3mXxeIF_fEM9tn [SPS] Brussels (Belgium) -- The European Union Commission affirmed, Tuesday evening, that the position of the European Union with regard to the issue of Western Sahara is known and has not changed and is based on the settlement stipulated in the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council.]]> Thu, 16 Mar 2023 01:02:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nBgMINHTf3mXxeIF_fEM9tn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nAgYf8iPPzC16gHTd9OkkKt [Chatham House] Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since 1948, while the Western Sahara, a territory that has been disputed in northwest Africa since 1976, is in a stalemate. UN peacekeeper, Major Chathurika Bombuwala, speaks to Gitika Bhardwaj about her experience as part of a series exploring women in international affairs.]]> Wed, 08 Mar 2023 07:01:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nAgYf8iPPzC16gHTd9OkkKt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nDngG46uiuI-Soxzwoq1nFt [AI London] On 20 February, the Rabat Court of Appeal upheld the conviction against human rights defender Rida Benotmane, imposed by a lower court on 7 November 2022, on charges relating to his social media posts and YouTube videos dating from 2021, in which he criticised the Moroccan government. On appeal, his sentence was reduced from three years to 18 months in prison. He remains held in solitary confinement in Arjate 1 prison in the city of Salé. He must be immediately and unconditionally released as his im]]> Thu, 02 Mar 2023 09:38:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nDngG46uiuI-Soxzwoq1nFt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nDIwd-SrxtEaC3FFO_xyF25 [SPS] Shahid Al-Hafed -- The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, received yesterday, Algerian academic, media and cultural personalities, at the Presidency of the Republic.]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2023 15:10:35 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nDIwd-SrxtEaC3FFO_xyF25 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nDIwd-SrxtEaHCrAHWlao0B [SPS] Madrid (Spain) -- In light of the general trend towards the date of the general elections in Spain, as a deadline of December 10, 2023, the Sahrawi issue appears to be one of the main topics within the political debate and a shoe stone for the coalition government between the Spanish Socialist Workers Party and Leonidas Podemos.]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2023 15:09:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nDIwd-SrxtEaHCrAHWlao0B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nDIwd-SrxtEaAO5yOwvVe_2 [SPS] Boujdour (Refugee Camp) -- The Secretary General of the National Union of Sahrawi Women, Ms. Shaba Seini, received a solidarity delegation from the State of Mexico, at the Union's headquarters in the Wilay of Boujdou, Sahrawi Refugee Camp.]]> Fri, 10 Feb 2023 15:08:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nDIwd-SrxtEaAO5yOwvVe_2 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nACE6Z3zvpiK6bel3Iu4GjH [SPS] Shaheed Al Hafed (Refugee Camps) -- President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, warned of the scale of conspiracy and antagonism to which the Sahrawi issue is exposed, through the Moroccan occupation opening the doors to malicious foreign agendas that threaten peace and stability in the entire region.]]> Mon, 06 Feb 2023 09:33:26 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nACE6Z3zvpiK6bel3Iu4GjH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nAuPLwLNVIXobmyhX6zo8SW [The New Humanitarian] Camp Boujdour, Algeria -- 'There is a war and nobody is talking about it. Everybody is talking about Ukraine, and nobody is talking about Western Sahara.']]> Thu, 02 Feb 2023 06:15:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nAuPLwLNVIXobmyhX6zo8SW https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nDbVWjKskbkv84HQhe4ZUzd [SPS] Birlahlou -- The Sahrawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) carried out new attacks targeting entrenchments of the Moroccan occupation army in the Hawza sector, causing heavy losses in lives and equipment, according to military statement No. 724 issued Monday by the Ministry of Defense.]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2023 10:03:05 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nDbVWjKskbkv84HQhe4ZUzd https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nATdEw2j2tOmZJTpfXVttXD [SPS] Dakhla (Refugee Camps) -- President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, stressed in Dakhla, in the Sahrawi refugee camps, that the 16th Congress of the Polisario Front was "clear in its decisions and in setting priorities for Sahrawi national action in the next stage."]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:46:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nATdEw2j2tOmZJTpfXVttXD https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nBch2sWp0P3HOQEmsPXZ5C9 [Scrolla] The Confederation of African Football (CAF) have launched an investigation into remarks made by Zwelivelile Mandela, the grandson of Nelson Mandela, at the opening ceremony of the African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Algeria.]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2023 19:23:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nBch2sWp0P3HOQEmsPXZ5C9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nBIzKix8XyACASngkwrdsok [SPS] Dakhla (Refugee Camps) -- The Election Committee presented last night, two candidates for the post of Secretary-General of the Polisario Front.]]> Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:58:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nBIzKix8XyACASngkwrdsok https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nB6tztzct10At6jHbRcHw3s [SPS] Dakhla (Refugee Camps) -- The sixteenth Congress of the Polisario Front endorsed, by an absolute majority, the basic law of the Polisario Front, after presenting the amended and added articles for voting.]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2023 18:11:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nB6tztzct10At6jHbRcHw3s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nCxgiQ6_TSmIgm0QkxGtqLL [The Conversation Africa] Western Sahara is the territory in north-west Africa bordered by Morocco in the north, Algeria and Mauritania in the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. A former Spanish colony, it's listed by the United Nations as one of only 17 territories that remain without self-government.]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2023 21:05:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nCxgiQ6_TSmIgm0QkxGtqLL https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nDTbDT73KV9AdaXKMm36c-X [SPS] Shahid Al-Hafed -- The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, chaired today, the last ordinary session of the National Secretariat, before the holding of the 16th congress of the Polisario Front, in which national and international issues will be discussed.]]> Thu, 29 Dec 2022 18:06:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nDTbDT73KV9AdaXKMm36c-X https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nDTbDT73KV9AQSngkwrdsok [SPS] Shahid Al-Hafed -- The President of the Republic, the Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, received yesterday, members of the multi-disciplinary Algerian medical mission that had been carrying out its work in the Sahrawi hospitals for a whole week.]]> Thu, 29 Dec 2022 18:06:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/X8WthMPG0nDTbDT73KV9AQSngkwrdsok