Women Sahrawi preparing the mural for the national holiday

 Eve to the national unity day, October 12, women Sahrawi preparing the mural that participate as National Union of Sahrawi women in parades during the celebrations that will take place in the Wilayas of Auserd.

Claude Mangin begins a visit to Germany on the human rights situation in Western Sahara

Human rights activist Claude Mangin Asfari has begun a awarenee visit to Germany on the human rights situation in the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara

The activist of the Saharawi cause participated in the 16th edition of the African Film Festival in Cologne. She was one of the guests of honor where the film Dis-Leur I Exist and 4 short films Three Stolen Cameras, Cast in Sand, Barber Shop Skeikima and elsewhere were screened.

In the Municipality of Bremen, Claude Mangin Asfari, was received at the seat of the Land Parliament by the Deputy, Vice President of the Foreign Affairs Committee Mrs Grotheer and by Hermann Kleen, the Chief of Staff of Christian Weber the President of the Parliament. It was a question of how to continue the already active support of Bremen to the Parliament in Berlin.

In this context, the human rights activist met with the municipality of Göttingen, the director of the Association of Endangered Peoples, Ulrich Delius where he promised to continue to redouble the efforts especially to organize concerts with the other German associations to obtain support of the Saharawi cause from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to be a spokesman of the Saharawi cause in (OHCHR), The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva thanks to its ECOSOC status.

Official launch of academic year 2018-2019

The new academic year (2018-2019) officially started on Sunday in the Saharawi refugee camps and liberated territories of the Sahrawi Republic, after the national conference on education held last week in the wilaya of Boujdour.
The Ministry of Education confirmed that the launch is conducted with the presence of members from the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, the Sahrawi government, and regional and local authorities, and under the supervision of the Ministry of Education.
The Ministry of Education also supervised the transfer of studying in neighboring Algeria starting from August 8, under the supervision of a committee of education and national partner institutions. (SPS)

POLISARIO renews its commitment to support UN envoy to Western Sahara efforts for direct negotiations

 Wali of Aaiun Camps,  Mr. Mohamed Salim Bisset has reiterated the commitment of the Frente POLISARIO to support the efforts of the UN Special Envoy to Western Sahara, former German President Horst Köhler, voicing POLISARIO full readiness to resume direct negotiations with the Moroccan occupation state In good faith and without any preconditions.

Sahrawi official while presenting a conference entitled “Three decades to eradicate colonization; Evaluation and changes in Western Sahara ” on the sidelines of his participation along with  Saharawi delegation composed of human rights activists and victims of Moroccan occupation  repression in the works of the XXXIX session of the Human Rights Council. SPS

International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances: CEAS-Sahara urges MINURSO to ensure access to places where there are reports of mass graves

Madrid, August 30, 2018 (SPS) - The State Coordinating Committee of Associations in Solidarity with the Sahrawi people (CEAS-Sahara) has demanded in a statement on the occasion of  the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances that MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) ensure access to places where there are reports of mass graves or burials of dead or disappeared persons and that independent teams can carry out this identification and return to their families.

CEAS-Sahara has stated in its statement that Enforced disappearance is still a reality in Western Sahara and "is one of the most atrocious behaviors carried out for decades against the Saharawi people that still hopes to make effective their rights to justice, truth and reparation. . "

CEAS-Sahara said that the Sahrawi disappeared persons in the graves where exhumations have been carried out, and in other cases still pending clarification, were Spanish citizens.

On December 21, 2010, the General Assembly of the United Nations expressed its concern over the increase in forced disappearances in various regions of the world and decided to declare August 30, International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances.

AFAPREDESA, the Association of Relatives of Prisoners and Sahrawis Disappeared continues working on the search of more than 400 documented cases of victims of enforced disappearances in Western Sahara. The majority of these disappearances occurred during the first years of the military occupation of the territory (between 1975 and 1976).

CEAS-Sahara said that there is ample evidence of the existence of mass graves in Western Sahara. The places of burial of the Sahrawi people who died in the clandestine detention centers have not been revealed, nor have their remains been rescued and identified, nor returned to their families for their burial and mourning.

At the invitation AFAPREDESA, a forensic investigation team of HEGOA, Institute of the University of the Basque Country, under the direction of Professor Francisco Etxeberria Gabilondo, has proceeded to the exhumation of different common graves .

In this context, in light of the results of the investigations carried out to date from CEAS-Sahara, it warned of the risk that the sites are of common graves being destroyed by the Moroccan occupying administration given that some of those places are in zones under military or police control.

CEAS-Sahara demanded that the Spanish State assume its responsibility. The disappeared Sahrawi people in the graves where exhumations have been carried out, in other cases still pending clarification, were Spanish citizens at the time of the events.

The Spanish State maintains its responsibility to investigate and support the recognition of the victims of enforced disappearance of the Saharawi people, and this has been recognized in the investigation of the case of genocide that continues in the National Court. SPS

The participants in the ninth (martyr Boukhari Ahmed) edition of the summer university which takes place in Boumerdes,

The participants in the ninth (martyr Boukhari Ahmed) edition of the summer university which takes place in Boumerdes, Algeria, from 4 to 15 August low the 45 years of the creation of the F.Polisario and the luchade release, commitment and determination for freedom and the independence. In its second week the participants performed an act of support and solidarity with Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan prisons and demand his immediate release. 

The Pope @Pontifex_es received in the Vatican, the Saharawi children

The Pope @Pontifex_es received in the Vatican, the Saharawi children born and living in the camps for Sahrawi refugees in the South of Algeria. During the ceremony the Saharawi children expressed his desire and right to know their free homeland, Western Sahara, soon.