WEEKLY NEWS

WEEK 43, 23-29.10.1995

25.10.1995
The King of Morocco, 66-year-old, was admitted to a hospital in New York suffering from bronchial pneumonia. Hassan II was attending 50th anniversary celebrations at the United Nations when he was taken ill.

26.10.1995
In a press release the AFAPREDESA announces that, in anticipation of the visit of King Hassan II in the occupied city of El Ayoun, scheduled Nov. 6, the Moroccan authorities are multiplying repressive mesures. They displace the Sahrawis suspected of POLISARIO's sympathies out of the towns, and build protections around strategical installations.

27.10. 1995
King Hassan of Morocco is recovering rapidly, the Moroccan authorities said.

27-28-29.10.1995
21th European Coordination Conference of support to the Sahrawi People in Geneva. More than one hundred delegates from Supporting groups, Associations, NGOs, etc discussed the needs of the Sahrawi refugees and the political situation of Western Sahara. They decided the creation of the Office Solidarity Sahrawi Women, and worked out a solemn appeal at the adress of the United Nations and the International Community, the APPEAL OF GENEVA.

New publications

• El Karama, nr 7, oct.-dec. 1995, Human Rights Office of the European Coordination of Support to the Sahrawi People, Geneva, BP 53, CH-1211 Genève 9, 4 p.
  
• Confessions of a woman. Testimonies of women who have generated reasons for living, Principado de Asturias, 1995, 48 p., in spanish and english.
  
• Sahara Info, nr 94, oct.-dec. 1995, bulletin of the AARASD, Paris, 28 p.
  
• Programma di risanamento ambientale e miglioramento della produzione alimentare e delle condizioni di vita nei campi profughi sahrawi della regione di Tindouf (Algeria), ott. 1993 - gennaio 1995, CESTAS Bologna.
  
• Pampiglione G., Algeria: regione di Tindouf. Campi profughi sahraui. Impianto sperimentale d'irrigazione a goccia. Tesi de Laurea, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Facoltà di Agraria, 1995, 127 p.