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Sahara Press Service

Sahrawi news agency

Field	Value
name	Sahara Press Service
logo	File:Logo of the Sahara Press Service (2023).png
native_name	وكالة الأنباء الصحراوية
native_name_lang	ar
romanized_name	Wikālat al-’Anbā’ aṣ-Ṣaḥrāwīyah
type	Not-for-profit news agency
foundation
location	Shaheed El Hafed
hq_location_city	Tindouf
hq_location_country	Algeria
key_people	Editor-in-Chief Saleh Nafee
industry	News media
module	{{Infobox website
embed	yes
commercial	No
language
current_status	Available
homepage

Sahara Press Service (SPS; ) is the multi-lingual official press agency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. The agency mainly report government-related news and current Sahrawi affairs, both from the liberated and occupied territories of Western Sahara, and the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria.

History

Sahara Press Service was established on 29 March 1999 with a support from Algeria Press Service in collaboration with the Swiss Association for a Free and Fair Referendum in Western Sahara, known as ARSO, in the midst of interactions resulting from the cease-fire of the Western Sahara War on September 6, 1991. The SPS dispatches began to be posted on the internet since April 1999, due to the combined efforts of the Friends of Sahrawi People in Switzerland and Spain. Among the founders was the journalist and then SADR Minister of Information, Mohamed Fadel Ismail Ould Es-Sweyih. Its current director and editor-in-chief is Saleh Nafee. The Sahara Press Service also releases the El Karama monthly magazine, which reports on human rights violations in the region.

Reports were published only in French until 2001, when the SPS website was opened. In March 2001, news started to be published in Spanish. On April 20, 2003, the news were also published in English on the website. In 2005, SPS added Arabic to the language options of their site. In September 2010, SPS started releasing a weekly news resume bulletin in PDF format. On 1 July 2012 news started to be published in Russian as well.

On 25 January 2012, Sahrawi president Mohamed Abdelaziz inaugurated the new headquarters of the press agency on the Sahrawi refugee camps. SPS launched a new website and logo on 11 October 2023.

References

(March 27, 2014). "15th Anniversary of Sahara Press Service (SPS): "Reinforcing message of credibility, responsibility, professionalism" to confront fallacies of occupation".
(February 26, 2016). "About us".
(September 25, 2020). "President of Republic appoints new director for Sahara Press Service".
(29 March 2009). "SPS celebrates its 10th anniversary". Sahara Press Service.
Besenyő János {{Google books. DlGfAgAAQBAJ. Western Sahara
(10 May 2011). "Imminent launch of new look of SPS website". SPS.
link. SPS. (1 July 2012). (September 2018)
(2012-01-25). "President of Republic supervises inauguration of SPS new headquarters".
(2023-10-11). "President of Republic supervises launch of new website of Sahrawi News Agency (SPS)".

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