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. ==See also==