Sahara Press Service

Sahara Press Service (SPS; Arabic: وكالة الأنباء الصحراوية, romanized: Wikālat al-’Anbā’ aṣ-Ṣaḥrāwīyah) is the multi-lingual official press agency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

[1] 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.

[2] Among the founders was the journalist and then SADR Minister of Information, Mohamed Fadel Ismail Ould Es-Sweyih.

[3] The Sahara Press Service also releases the El Karama monthly magazine, which reports on human rights violations in the region.

[6] In September 2010, SPS started releasing a weekly news resume bulletin in PDF format.