Western Sahara : News

News : Western Sahara : News

A majority of sixty-eight members of the Pan- African Parliament (PAP) have adopted the motion to exert pressure on the government of the Kingdom of Morocco to release the seven human rights activists that were "abducted upon their return from visiting their families in the Saharawi refugee camps." (AllAfrica)

A potentially serious infestation of desert locusts has broken out in Mauritania, but experts are hopeful that quickly implemented countermeasures will prevent a  repeat of the plague that hit the region five years ago. (AllAfrica)

First Lady, Hajiya Turai Yar'Adua has joined the call for the independence of Western Sahara from occupation by Morocco, stressing that colonialism ought to have been totally abolished from the African continent. (AllAfrica)

Federal Government has condemned human rights violations unleashed on workers of Western Sahara, stating that it would co-opt the Nigerian Labour Congress leadership to tackle some of the problems in the region. (AllAfrica)

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and an elder statesman, Alhaji Maitama Sule, in Abuja on Thursday, called on the international community to support the liberation of the Western Sahara, stressing that the gross violation of human rights in the Western Sahara by Morocco was condemnable. (AllAfrica)

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today that he intends to appoint a highly experienced United Nations official as the head of the Organization's efforts to resolve the long-running dispute over the status of Western Sahara. (AllAfrica)

A human right activist and campaigner for the rights of self-determination for the Saharawi people in Western Sahara, Mrs. Aminatou Haider, has urged Nigeria and other African countries to put pressure on the Kingdom of Morocco to end its occupation of Western Sahara and allow its people to freely determine their political choice, of autonomy under Morocco or sovereign Independent state. (AllAfrica)

The story of the Liberian civil war cannot be complete without references to Nigeria's Major Gen. C.C. Iweze(rtd). Currently, a director with Multimesh Group, (a digital cable satellite pay-TV service provider, based in Port-Harcourt), Major-Gen. Iweze served as Chief of Staff of the West African Peace Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) in 1990. (AllAfrica)

The head of the United Nations refugee agency today kicked off a five-day tour to North Africa to assess the conditions for people still sheltering in makeshift camps in Algeria after fleeing conflict in Western Sahara in the mid-1970s. (AllAfrica)

For one week IKE ABONYI  was on a tour of the North African nation of Western Sahara during which he took a tour of the desert and captures his experience. (AllAfrica)

The latest United Nations-backed talks between Morocco and the Frente Polisario over the disputed territory of Western Sahara have concluded with a commitment from both parties to continue negotiations as soon as possible. (AllAfrica)

A row of Moroccan flags, firmly embedded in a concrete wall too tall to scale, align a compound that has no political will and surround a United Nations mission that has no human rights mandate. Minurso, the UN Mission for the Referendum in the Western Sahara, is a sad spectacle where the single blue flag appears to reach tall into the brisk December sky. But it hangs limp as the dozens of red draped green stars flutter in the slight breeze; defiant and dominant. (AllAfrica)

Informal talks are being held in Vienna between the different parties involved in the long lasting conflict over the Western Sahara. A new plan proposed by the Obama administration will be discussed between the Polisario and the Kingdom of Morocco. (AllAfrica)

On the eve of the renewal of MINURSO's mandate by the UN and the summit of the OAU at the beginning of July in Lusaka,the Saharawi minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, visited Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mali and Angola, while the permanent representative of SADR at the OAU, Ambassador Fadel Ismail, went to Nairobi, Dar-Es-Salaam and Kampala. (AllAfrica)

Two of the UNÂ’s leading humanitarian agencies today appealed to donor countries to provide at least US$1.2 million each month mainly for urgently needed food aid for Western Saharan refugees living in remote camps in south-west Algeria. (AllAfrica)

June 20, 2001. The Honorable George W. Bush President The White House Washington, D.C., 20504. (AllAfrica)

US-Western Sahara Foundation Officers Call on President Bush to Intervene over Western Sahara Conflict: Referendum or War? (AllAfrica)

Representation for Europe of the Polisario Front: On 5th May 2001, Mr James Baker, the personal envoy for Western Sahara of the UN Secretary General Mr Kofi Annan, came to show us the Moroccan proposals about a "plan for autonomy" in Western Sahara, and asked us to accept them. (AllAfrica)

Week 24 10.-16.06.2001 - Morocco: Amnesty International's Annual Report (AllAfrica)

The European Commission announced on Tuesday a 3.7 million-euro (US $ 3.2 million) grant to buy relief items - mainly food - for some 155,000 Western Sahara refugees in Tindouf, southwestern Algeria. (AllAfrica)

Morocco: Amnesty International's Annual Report (AllAfrica)

Two UN agencies have appealed to donors for US $1.2 million per month for food and other humanitarian aid to some 155,000 refugees who have been living in camps in Tindouf, southwest Algeria, since 1976, UNHCR reported. (AllAfrica)

The European Commission announced on Tuesday a 3.7 million-euro (US $ 3.2 million) grant to buy relief items - mainly food - for some 155,000 Western Sahara refugees in Tindouf, southwestern Algeria. (AllAfrica)

The model/actress turned crooner, Cynthia Basinet, best known for her hit phenomenon "Santa Baby," recently returned from visiting the Sahrawi refugee camps in the Algerian Sahara desert after a first-hand assestment of a pending food crisis in the refugee camps. The invitation to visit the refugee camp was from the US-Western Sahara Foundation and the Sahrawi refugees. (AllAfrica)

WESTERN SAHARA Weekly News.WEEKS 22 + 23 27.05.-12.06.2001. Human rights abuses 26.05.01: Ali Salem Hamdani, one of the Saharawis arrested on 6 March 2000 following demonstrations in El Ayoun and sentenced to 5 years' imprisonment, is suffering from a serious heart condition. (AllAfrica)

WESTERN SAHARA Weekly News (AllAfrica)

SAHARA OCCIDENTAL ACTUALITES HEBDOMADAIRES (AllAfrica)

Two leading United Nations agencies today called on donors to provide at least $1.2 million per month to assist Western Sahara refugees living in remote desert camps in Algeria. (AllAfrica)

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has again called on the Polisario Front to release Moroccan POWs, most of whom the liberation movement has been holding for at least 20 years. (AllAfrica)

Week 21 20.-26.05.2001. 16.05.01 European Parliament. During a meeting of the European parliamentary intergroup "Peace for the Saharawi people" in Strasbourg, the president, Margot Kessler, announced that the Swedish parliament has pronounced itself in favour of the Peace Plan as the only solution to the conflict in Western Sahara. (AllAfrica)

European Parliament (AllAfrica)