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.

Within the framework of a policy of integration adopted by the African Union, to integrate the African community throughout the world and to enable their participation in the development of the African continent

Within the framework of a policy of integration adopted by the African Union, to integrate the African community throughout the world and to enable their participation in the development of the African continent, a delegation from the Commission delegation of the African Union, led by Vice President Thomas Kwersi Quartey and several of his aides, as well as a high-level delegation on behalf of the economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), led by Director Seydo Ahmed Bashir, which also includes among its members the general secretariat of the National Union of Sahrawi women as Vice President of ECOSOC, conducted a working visit to the islands of Trinidad and Tobaqo in Latin America, in coordination with the community network of the Africa of the Caribbean Islands. The working visit will cover activities, meetings, and workshops on the definition of the organs of the AU and the search for formulas to enable the participation of the African community at the level of the Islands. Also held seminars with the participation of political figures at the level of the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Guyana, Cuba, Barbados, Suriname, Costa Rica, Martinique, as well as civil society organizations. The visit started on July 29 and will continue until August 1, 2018.

Day of the African woman"

On July 31, 1962 was institutionalized the "day of the African woman" during a Conference of African women, held in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, which was attended by representatives of 14 countries and eight national liberation movements.

That Act was based, so that, in 1974, was created the Pan-African organization of the women (OPM), which aims to allow the change in the lives of African women, promoting their progress, justice and peace in the world.

The OPM to the UNMS and various women's organizations working to ensure the participation of women in decision-making, respect for human rights, as well as the Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against them.

African women's day is an exceptional moment, because it highlights the history of struggles for freedom of expression, the African mother's love as well as their contribution to the progress and evolution of societies internationally. This day is an opportunity to honor the women of a continent full of challenges, but also full of possibilities and progress for liberation and the building of a tolerant and egalitarian society in the framework of the objectives and activities to develop in the program marked by the Decade of African woman 2010-2020.

In this context the Sahrawi women work on the ground for progress at the level of organization of civil society, especially the Organization of women, youth and disabled and whose efforts deserve the highest recognition to be an experience developed in the field of democracy, equality and good governance for more than 43 years in adverse circumstances of exile, as well as the importance of the efforts made by the Sahrawi institutions in respect to the human rights.

The Sahrawi women in exile are the engine of an economy that is based on the management exemplary humanitarian aid who receive the Sahrawi refugees as well as promote self-financing and small initiatives allowing a self-sufficiency and no place to doubt is part of the work of African women to revive the economies of families.

The contributions of African women to the family economy, food production systems, and national economies in general, is being recognized gradually because they constitute 80% of the people who implement actions of trade transnational, generating millions of dollars a year into the economies of sub-Saharan Africa. However, most of the policies implemented by Governments have obviated these contributions, so the women who perform these tasks act with little or no institutional support.

Different international institutions (UN women, World Bank and NGOs) are working at the regional and country level to promote women's economic empowerment: business training programs, microcredit programs, assistance Financial, etc... These institutions also work to eliminate other barriers, such as trade policies and regulations that hinder women's access to markets. Sahrawi women want to congratulate African women on this day of African women and we demand the end of the occupation of our country by Morocco and its military and police forces so that our freedom is a reality that allows us to change In the lives of Sahrawi women, To promote with our progress, justice and peace in our continent and in the world.