Western Sahara News

Every revolution has its losers. Libya's new rulers, who swept to power three months ago in a revolt against Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule, have promised the country a brighter future. In the biggest cities, celebratory gunfire and the war-cry "God is great" can still be heard daily. In Bani Walid, long a stronghold for Gaddafi loyalists and one of their last bastions to fall during this year's civil war, the mood is entirely different.

Helicopters of the French army arrived Saturday in Gao, northern Mali to participate in the research of French nationals kidnapped in the south of the country a few days ago, Malian security sources said. In addition to the helicopters that landed Saturday in Gao, French soldiers were also sent to the same region, the sources said, as part of research operations of French nationals kidnapped Thursday in the town of Hombori in southern Mali.

Algiers - According to sources close to officials at the Directorate General of Customs, thirteen former trade unionists of the National Union of Workers of Customs, whose files have been transferred to court, after being deprived of their union immunity, on the billions that they have in banks and the land they have acquired during their working years in the south, would have started a hunger strike. The same sources revealed the scandal following the meeting of the Director General of Customs with the management of southern Algeria,

The Union of Sahrawi for Human Rights expressed on Tuesday its indgnation about the deteriorating state of health of the Sahrawi activist for human rights Sheikh Banga, held in Moroccan prisons and observing an indefinite hunger strike since Sept. 15, said a statement from the union taken over by the Sahrawi news agency SPS.   The Sahrawi prisoner in the prison of Salé El-Zaki suffers from breathing difficulties, acute fatigue and hypothermia, said the Union, stating that his life is in danger. The Sahrawi organization denounced the practices of the prison administration which, together with the general delegation of the prison and the Moroccan secret services, provided “inhuman treatment” Sahrawi activists in the opinion depriving them of contact with the outside world. The Union of Sahrawi for Human Rights has also expressed its solidarity with the family of the martyr Said Dember face practices of the Moroccan authorities, reaffirming its support for all activists, activists a...

MONTREAL – The Quebec filmmaker Catherine Hébert and the director and producer Yanick Létourneau were honored at the 14th annual International Documentary Montreal (RIDM).   Catherine Hébert was awarded the Grand Prize of the national competition feature films with a wide detour Books for” cinematic approach and the mainland within the director that are of great sensitivity. “ The price of the criticism and the Cinémathèque québécoise was awarded to the film The United States of Africa, Yanick Létourneau, which addresses the issue of political commitment, especially through music.

by Yazid Alilat Bbetween Algeria and Morocco, it will always be an old story of misunderstanding, misunderstanding and uncertainty. Sometimes dangerous skids. At the end of the ministerial meeting of Arab Syria, the foreign ministers of Algeria Mourad Medelci and Moroccan Fassi Fihri, have met extensively on bilateral cooperation. This was an opportunity for the two diplomats to see, discuss the issue of cooperation practically idle for almost two decades. So after the discussion of Turkish-Arab Balafredj the room where the fate of Syria was sealed, the two ministers met to pick up the thread of cooperation between Algeria – Morocco.

Cheikh Banga has been on a hunger strike since mid-September. His life is therefore in danger. But he is willing to risk his life for the cause he is fighting for – independence for the population of Africa’s last colony, Western Sahara that has been illegally occupied by Morocco for over 36 years. Banga is also fighting to end Moroccan discrimination against the indigenous population of Western Sahara, the Saharawis, as well as to ensure that he gets a fair trial. Banga, and twenty-three other hunger striking human rights activists, are detained in the infamous Sale Prison outside the Moroccan capital, Rabat, and are awaiting trial in a military court. They were all arrested in October last year during the demolition of the peaceful Gdeim Izik protest camp in occupied Western Sahara by Moroccan security forces.