AMINATOU HAIDAR IS IN A WORKING VISIT IN NIGERIA

The Saharawi Human Rights Activists, Aminatou Haidar is these days in a working visit in the sister Federal Republic of Nigeria. "The Saharawi Ghandi" as is internationally called, and and also 2009 FK Kenedy Human Rights Award is having a lot of meetings and talks with several offitial institutions and also NGO in the capital of Nigeria, Abuja and in Lagos for informing them about the warning situation in the occupied cities of Western Sahara.

The President of the Saharawi Collective of Human Rights Defenders (CODESA), Ms. Aminatou Haidar, met on Saturday morning with the President of the Nigerian movement of solidarity with the Saharawi people, Ms. Lady Ilia, in the Saharawi Embassy in Abuja. The meeting discussed the program of the week of solidarity with the Saharawi people that will be organised this week in Abuja, and which will be marked by the constitution of the first Nigerian movement of solidarity with the Saharawi people. During the meeting, Ms. Lady Ili, who is also the Deputy President of the Nigerian Labour Council (NLC/ the Nigerian Umbrella trade union), expressed her admiration and respect of the Saharawi people’s courage and legitimate struggle for independence. She recalled her visit to the Saharawi refugee camps last year and the positive impression this visit had on her as well as on the Nigerian delegation accompanying her, which was chaired by the President of the NLC, Mr. Abdulwahid Omar.

Ms. Lady Ili reiterated the principled position adopted by the Nigerian trade union, which is firmly supporting the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence. On her side, the Saharawi human rights activist and ex-prisoner of conscience, Aminatou Haidar, thanked the Nigerian movement of solidarity, recalling that Nigeria was a fervent defender of all African liberation movement, including the struggle of the historic South African people against the Apartheid.The meeting was also attended from the Saharawi side, by the Saharawi Ambassador to Nigeria, Oubi Bouchraya Bachir, and the Secretary General of the Saharawi Journalists and Writers Union, Malainin Lakhal, in addition to the Nigerian Coordinator of the movement of solidarity in Nigeria, Mr. Nuhu Toro.Aminatou Haidar with the President of the Nigerian movement of solidarity