Banjul (Gambia), May 2, 2025 (SPS) The Sahrawi Republic participated this Friday in the opening session of the 83rd session of the African Commission for Human and Peoples (Cadhp), held in Banjul, the Gambian capital.
The Sahrawi Republic was represented by Ambassador Malainin Lakhal, deputy permanent representative to Ethiopia and the African Union.
The opening meeting was chaired by the president of the African Commission for Human and Peoples, in the presence of a representative of the Gambian government, several African human rights personalities and officials of African institutions, such as the African Committee for the Rights of the Child.
Participants listened to the video speeches of the president of the African Commission, the president of the Pan -African Parliament, the President of the African Court of Human and Peoples, the representative of the European Union for Human Rights and representatives of other organizations and organizations activating in the field.
In his speech on this occasion, the president of CADHP stressed that Africa is a sick continent, a victim of tragedies due to the non-compliance with human rights and peoples, insisting on the importance of the theme of the year adopted by the last summit of the African Union.
The representative of the Sahrawi Republic, for his part, pronounced a general declaration on the magnitude of the blatant violations of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, whose Moroccan obstruction in the exercise of the inalienable law of the Sahrawi people to self -determination, as well as the systematic violations of civil, political, economic and social rights of the Sahraouis Moroccan occupation.
In this regard, the Sahrawi diplomat called the Commission, as well as the other competent bodies of the African Union, to dispatch a mission to the occupied territories, in order to put an end to a shameful contempt of the situation in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
He also denounced the climbing against the Sahrawi civilians since the violation of the cease-fire agreement by the Moroccan army, having made dozens of victims of civilians by the Moroccan army using drones.
Several human rights subjects should be discussed during special sessions, seminars and discussions, it said. (SPS)
