Sahara Press Service
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| Industry | News media |
| Founded | 29 March 1999[1] |
| Headquarters | Sahrawi refugee camps, Tindouf, Algeria |
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| Website | English, عربي, Español, Français, русский |
Sahara Press Service (SPS) is the multi-lingual official press agency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, the government in exile of the Western Sahara. The agency mainly report government-related news and current Sahrawi affairs, both from the liberated territories, the occupied territories and the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria.
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History
It was established at the Sahrawi refugee camps on 29 March 1999 (A POLISARIO agency press had been founded previously in 1980). Among the founders of SPS was the journalist and then SADR Minister of Information Mohamed Fadel Ismail Ould Es-Sweyih.[2] Its current director and editor in chief is Saleh Nafee.[3]
Reports were published only in French until 2001, when the SPS website was opened. On March 2001, news started to be published also 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.[4] Since September 2010, SPS releases a weekly news resume bulletin on PDF format. On 1 July 2012 news started to be published also in Russian.[5]
On 25 January 2012, president of the SADR Mohamed Abdelaziz inaugurated the new headquarters of the press agency on the Sahrawi refugee camps.[6]
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