Sahrawi Republic takes part in meeting to establish Epidemiological Surveillance and Laboratory Network for North Africa

Cairo (Egypt), September 15, 2025 (SPS) - The Sahrawi Republic has participated in the meeting to establish the Epidemiological Surveillance and Laboratory Network dedicated to North Africa, held in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. The meeting, which...

Geneva Support Group for Western Sahara calls for urgent protection of Sahrawi rights and respect of the rights to self-determination

Geneva (UN Human Rights Council) 12 September 2025 (SPS) – The Permanent Representative of the United Republic of Tanzania to the UN in Geneva, H.E. Abdallah Saleh Possi, speaking on behalf of Geneva Support Group for Western Sahara, a...

Sahrawi Republic takes part in Senior Officials' meetings of Continental Free Trade Area in Cairo

Cairo (Egypt), September 14, 2025 (SPS) – The Sahrawi Republic participated in the proceedings of the 21st Meeting of Senior Officials of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), held in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, from September 11 to...

Plundering Wealth of Western Sahara: Spanish Party calls for compliance with European Court of Justice ruling

Madrid, 13 September 2025 (SPS) - The Spanish party Sumar called Friday on the government to contribute to ensuring the European Union's compliance with the ruling of the European Court of Justice, which annulled partnership and fishing agreements...

Western Sahara’s Polisario Movement: Manufacturing a Threat to Global Security?

Executive Summary: Founded in 1973, the Polisario Front remains a UN-recognized secular liberation movement seeking independence from Moroccan rule. U.S. legislators are considering labeling the Sahrawi independence movement a terrorist group,...

President of Republic receives Ambassador Brahim Ahmed Mahmoud Following his accreditation as Ambassador to Cuba

Shaheed El-Hafed, September 13, 2025 (SPS) – The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, received Ambassador Brahim Ahmed Mahmoud. The meeting, which took place in the presence of the Minister of...

Colonialism, post-colonialism and Western Sahara: rebuilding Africa's fractured geographies

Introduction: beyond colonial cartographies The coloniality of power and the fragmentation of the Sahara Sovereignty as a historical relationship, not a colonial invention The poetics of resistance: liberation as narrative Feminist and ecological...

Western Sahara: South Africa Still Not Over Zumba’s Visit, Support for Morocco

Rabat – South Africa’s government continues to grumble over former President Jacob Zuma’s remarkable visit to Morocco, where he announced support for Morocco’s Autonomy Plan for the Western Sahara dispute. Ronald Lamola, South Africa’s Minister of...

Post-Coloniality and Western Sahara: Stitching Back Together Africa’s Broken Geographies

The incompleteness of decolonization is not only a matter of borders, flags, and treaties. It is also, and above all, a matter of imagination: who tells the story, who defines belonging, and who controls the symbolic cartographies of space. As the...

Sahrawi Human rights defender denounces systematic arbitrary detention in Western Sahara at UN Human Rights Council

Geneva (UN Human Rights Council) 10 Sept 2025 (SPS) – Sahrawi human rights defender Ms. Yaguta Mukhtar addressed the 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday morning in Geneva, warning against the systematic use by the Moroccan...

De Mistura identifies Morocco and Algeria as the main actors in the Western Sahara conflict

Staffan de Mistura, special envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) for Western Sahara, has identified Morocco and Algeria as the main actors involved in the ongoing conflict over the sovereignty of Western Sahara. In an...

UN called to assume its legal and political responsibility towards Sahrawi people

New York (United Nations), September 13, 2025 (SPS) - Dr. Sidi Mohamed Omar, Member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, the Representative at the United Nations and Coordinator with MINURSO, emphasized the Sahrawi side's persistent...

Sahrawi Republic strengthens continental and international presence at Addis Ababa Summits through advocacy for liberation and climate justice

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), September 09, 2025 (SPS) – The Permanent Representative of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) to Ethiopia and the African Union, Mr. Lamine Baali, praised the success of the Africa-Caribbean (CARICOM) Summit and...

NGOs Deplore Polisario’s Slavery Practices in Tindouf Camps

A number of international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are raising concerns about the persistent ongoing inhumane conditions in the Tindouf camps. Taking part in the session of the 60th UN Human Rights Council in Geneva yesterday, the...

Western Sahara: Algeria Dealt New Blow as UN Envoy De Mistura Refutes its ‘Observer’ Role Claim

Rabat – UN Envoy for Western Sahara Staffan de Mistura has directly challenged Algeria’s official narrative, refuting Algiers’ long-standing claim that it plays merely an “observer” role in the Sahara dispute. De Mistura made his remarks in an...

Sahrawi Republic's participation in Climate Summit reflects its commitment to environmental action despite challenges of occupation and climate change

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), September 08, 2025 (SPS) - The Minister of Water and Environment, Mr. Adda Brahim Ahmim, stated in a statement to the Sahrawi Press Agency (SPS) following his participation in the second African Climate Summit that the...

Sahrawi President appeals to African and international community to support climate projects in Western Sahara

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) September 08, 2025 (SPS) – The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, in his address at the second African Climate Summit held in Addis Ababa, appealed to the African and...

Western Sahara: At a time of decision, the UN is called upon to integrate the Sahrawi Movement for Peace as a central player

International consensus on Moroccan autonomy The credibility of the UN put to the test The Sahrawi Movement for Peace: a new Sahrawi legitimacy A moment of truth As pressure mounts on the UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy, Staffan de Mistura,...

International community's neglect of Western Sahara conflict has imposed heavy human and political costs on peoples of region

Geneva (Switzerland), 9 September 2025 (SPS) – Ambassador Oubbi Boushraya Bashir, the Representative of the Polisario Front to the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva, condemned the inaction of the international community 50...

Fifty years of ignoring international law in Western Sahara comes at high price

Geneva, 9 September 2025 (SPS) – Ambassador Abdallah S. Possi, the Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United Nations in Geneva, welcomed ambassadors, diplomats, and participants to a significant event commemorating the 50th anniversary of...