Former UN mediator in Syria, Swedish Staffan de Mistura, is expected to be the new UN envoy for Western Sahara, replacing the German, Horst Kohler, who resigned from this post in 2019, a senior Sahrawi official told APS. The proposed appointment of Staffan de Mistura is awaiting the approval of…

Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sabri Boukadoum on Thursday made a phone conversation with the US Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, on ways to strengthen the strategic partnership between the two countries. They also exchanged views on several regional issues of common interest, particularly the situation in Western Sahara. Mr.…

Morocco is leading a campaign of provocation and blackmail against Spain to undermine the Sahrawi cause and push Madrid to rebel against international legitimacy, said on Wednesday the Polisario Front representative in Spain, Abdullah Arabi. "The campaign led by Morocco against Spain which welcomed the Sahrawi president Brahim Ghali for…

The supreme court in Spain has categorically denied that the Spanish judiciary had issued any arrest warrant against the Sahrawi president, Brahim Ghali, who was received by the country (Spain) for treatment against infection with Coronavirus (Covid 19). La Rioja, the local newspaper in the province that received the Sahrawi…

Saharawi Foreign Affairs Ministry condemned Moroccan use of affronts and slander against the Saharawi legitimate struggle and national leadership even during purely humanitarian cases, such as the sickness of Saharawi President, Mr. Brahim Ghali, who is under medical care abroad. The Saharawi Ministry considered the Moroccan use of blackmail, slander…

High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell underlined that EU “closely follows the recent developments” in Western Sahara and reiterates his full support to the “process conducted by the United Nations to reach a fair, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution to…

British Minister for the Middle East and North Africa, James Cleverly, confirmed Friday that his country takes into account the legal opinion issued by the United Nations in 2002, which stipulated that the Sahrawi people agree to any exploitation of their natural resources. In a written response to the questions…

Spokesperson of the UN Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric, confirmed Friday that Antonio Guterres is continuing his efforts to appoint a new envoy for Western Sahara. The spokesperson said in response to a question on Western Sahara during the daily press conference, that “the Secretary-General is not pessimistic or optimistic, he is…

The Sahrawi People's Liberation Army units carried out intense attacks targeting the entrenchments of the occupation forces in various points of the Moroccan military defensive wall, according to military communiqué No. 162 of the Sahrawi Ministry of Defense. The communiqué stated that violent shelling targeted on Wednesday the Moroccan army…

The President of the UN Security Council, the permanent representative of Vietnam to the United Nations, Dang Dinh Quy, has stressed the need to reach a just solution to the Western Sahara issue that would enable the Sahrawi people to exercise their right to self-determination. In a speech to the…