Western Sahara News

par Ghania Oukazi Le ministre des Affaires étrangères confère à cette dernière sortie médiatique de l'année 2011 «un caractère symbolique», parce que, nous a-t-il dit, «il y a tellement de choses à dire sur ce qui se passe dans le monde». Mourad Medelci apporte ainsi dans cette interview des éclairages sur de grandes questions, nationales et internationales.  Le Quotidien d'Oran : Lors de l'ouverture de l'année judiciaire, le Président de la République a évoqué l'exception algérienne par rapport à ce qui se passe dans un certain nombre de pays arabes. En quoi l'Algérie serait-elle une exception ?  Mourad Medelci : Je crois tout d'abord que c'est un constat. Si nous apprécions le caractère exceptionnel de l'Algérie par comparaison avec un certain nombre de pays arabes qui vivent des évolutions, des mutations parfois dans la douleur, le constat est donc fait : l'Algérie, qui n'est pas la seule d'ailleurs - il y a aussi le Maroc - a connu

The World Federation of Democratic Youth, committed to the cause of anti-imperialist struggle, carried out an important international solidarity mission to Western Sahara on 2 to 11 of December.  The organization of this mission was decided before the Assembly in the framework of the decisions taken then, to continue organizing international missions such as the mission to Egypt and Palestine. After the Assembly and its decisions, this mission had even greater importance as the final documentation of the Assembly, among other decisions, underlined and ratified the importance of this missions and of course the importance to support and express solidarity to the struggle of the people of Western Sahara against the Moroccan occupation. The organization of the mission was carried out by the member organizations of WFDY, UJCE from Spain and the comrades of UJSARIO of Western Sahara. The mission had participation of 37 comrades from 3 countries and had theopportunity to meet with very impo

Spain said Thursday it will ask for compensation from the EU after the European Parliament cancelled a deal allowing EU trawlers, mainly from Spain, to fish in Moroccan waters. "I am going to ask for compensation for the damage to Spain's fishing fleet," said Spain's Farm, Environment and Fisheries Minister Rosa Aguilar, who was in Brussels for talks on fishing. The parliament move Wednesday prompted the North African nation to immediately ban all European fishing boats. European legislators said they wanted to wait until the interests of Western Sahara trawlers were considered before agreeing to a 12-month extension of the deal. Rights campaigners also said the deal breaches international law regarding Western Sahara, a region Morocco annexed in 1976. Under the deal, Morocco would have received 36 million euros ($46 million) to let some 120 fishing boats, mainly from Spain, operate in its waters. Finnish liberal MEP Carl Haglund said that payments alread

This is Voice of the Martyrs' definition of a restricted nation: "This includes countries where government policy or practice prevents Christians from obtaining Bibles or other Christian literature. Also included are countries where government-sanctioned circumstances or anti-Christian laws lead to Christians being harassed, imprisoned, killed or deprived of possessions or liberties because of their witness." Here is an excerpt from an article from Compass Direct News published September 17th, 2010 : By the end of December Jamaa Ait Bakrim, 46, will have been in prison for five years at Morocco’s largest prison, Prison Centrale, in Kenitra. An outspoken Christian convert, Bakrim was sentenced to 15 years prison for “proselytizing” and destroying “the goods of others” in 2005 after burning two defunct utility poles located in front of his private business in a small town in south Morocco. Advocates and Moroccan Christians said, however, that the severity of his se

On 11 November General Basque government awarded Ms. Haidar price Cassin for his “fight for the just cause of the people of Western Sahara”. Ms. Haidar “represents the struggle of the Saharawi people to defend human rights, a task especially difficult and risky because of the stubborn reality that clearly demonstrates how the Moroccan authorities break rights and limit the freedoms of expression, assembly and association, “including the Department of Justice said the Basque government as distinct. ” The defense of human rights is even more complicated and risky for Saharawi women who in their role in development of traditional life have been and continue to be victims of serious abuse, “said the jury to justify his choice. Ms. Haidar is 20 years old in 1987 when she committed to the independence of Western Sahara controlled by Morocco. It becomes an active militant in the struggle for human rights and chairs the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA). Sometimes known

Nina Murray, Women's Policy Officer 7 December 2011 As the first snowfall of the year flutters over the concrete Glasgow skyline and inevitable annual travel chaos looks set to descend in time for Christmas, the Sahara Desert is just about the farthest place from most of our festively-attuned imaginations.  Yet, thoughts of the Saharan sand dunes may well be in the minds of a small group of intrepid adventurers from different corners of the UK as they brave the biting British breeze to train for  Run the Sahara 2012 .

ROME – The Italian Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC) adopted a resolution on Western Sahara at its last congress calling for the return of all the rights of the Saharawi people living under Moroccan military occupation for 36 years, said on Tuesday in Rome. The resolution passed unanimously by its eighth national congress held in early December in Naples, the PRC called for “an immediate end to the persistent violation of human rights in the occupied territories, and the release of all Saharawi political prisoners. ”