Tue 23 Jan 2007 12:46:34 GMT  RABAT, Jan 23 (Reuters)
A young girl and a town mayor in Western Sahara died in two landmine explosions, four days after a member of parliament was killed in a similar blast, officials said on Tuesday. The rare succession of mine blasts prompted Moroccan newspapers to speculate they could be part of a plot by the Polisario Front to end a 16-year U.N.-sponsored ceasefire.   Continue reading →

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 23 January 2007, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Today, nutrition and food management specialists from UNHCR and WFP will start a 12-day mission to the Sahrawi refugee camps in western Algeria to assess the dire food  Continue reading →

Images of Western Sahara: A Picture Tells A Thousand Words
Exhibition runs 16 February – 4 March 2007
You are invited to the opening by Don Nardella M.L.A. on Thursday 15 February at 6pm.
Celebrating Western Sahara National Day, February 27
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The Sahara Marathon is an international sport event to demonstrate solidarity with the Saharawi people and run by the Saharawi Sport Committee.   The route symbolically connects the three refugee camps of Smara, Auserd and ElAyoun, and leads runners through a desert which has been the home of Saharawi refugees for 30 years.
See: http://www.saharamarathon.org/desktopdefault.aspx?fl=1

Announcing the launch of a terrific new web site, created by Australians planning to make a film about Western Sahara – here you will be able to virtually visit a refugee camp in Algeria, watch short Saharawi films and experience The Wall of Shame!
Visit  www.thewallofshame.info

YANUCA ISLAND, Fiji, 30 November -– The UN Special Committee on Decolonization put forward 48 conclusions and recommendations regarding the situation in Non-Self-Governing Territories as it concluded its three-day Pacific Regional Seminar.
A statement by Kamal Fadel, representive of the Frente Polisario – Western Sahara, was presented regarding the issue of the Non-Self-Governing Territory of Western Sahara.
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