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After Jihadists, Wagner now recruits Tindouf camps youth

Wagner is taking advantage to recruit young fighters from the Polisario-run Tindouf camps in Algeria, where Jihadist AQMI and ISIS have found fertile ground to enroll fighters. The alarm bell was rang by FORSATIN, a Sahrawi forum that brings together advocates of Morocco’s autonomy plan. “The early April attack by Wagner fighters on the Mauritanian […]

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Water, next episode in Algeria’s “blame Morocco” game

Blaming Morocco for self-inflicted troubles has become a national sports among members of the Algerian regime. This time, an obscure Algerian Minister Taha Derbal has accused Morocco of drying up Algeria’s west, where nearly 1.7 million have suffered days of water outages. Algeria has pinned the blame on Morocco previously for climate-induced wild fires, shortages […]

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Switzerland denies Polisario official representation on its territory

The Swiss government has affirmed that “there is no official representation of the polisario front either at the UN Office in Geneva or to the Federal Council,” dealing another blow to the Algeria-backed separatist group. In a diplomatic note addressed to the Moroccan embassy in Bern, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs said “the […]

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C24: Algerian Ambassador lambasted for exerting pressures on delegations supporting Sahara’s Moroccanness

The debate on the issue of the Sahara at the C24 Caribbean Seminar, held in Caracas (May 14-16), ended with sharp exchange between Morocco’s Ambassador to the UN, Omar Hilale and his Algerian counterpart Amar Benjama. The Moroccan diplomat vigorously denounced the acts of intimidation exerted by his Algerian colleague against the delegations which supported […]

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FIFA: Algeria & Polisario slapped with new rules banning player transfers from non-UN member states

The Algerian regime was plotting to get the Polisario militias into the world football scene, but suffered another humiliating setback. After the firm decision made by the Confederation of African Football rejecting the membership of the separatists, the FIFA followed suit dealing them another resounding blow. During the 74th FIFA Congress held Friday in Bangkok, […]

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U-17 Women’s World Cup Qualifiers: Morocco beats Algeria 4-0, cruises to final round

The Moroccan U-17 women’s football team has qualified for the final round of the African qualifiers for the 2024 World Cup, after its 4-0 victory over its Algerian counterpart on Friday in Algiers, in the second leg of the third and penultimate round of the qualifiers. In the first leg, the Moroccan team won 4-0. […]

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Spain warns its nationals from travelling to Polisario-run camps in Algeria

Spain issued its third warning in a row asking its citizens not to visit the Tindouf camps, where Algeria has abandoned thousands of Sahrawis to the mercy of a separatist militia, the Polisario, that trades in their suffering. The warning was issued by the Spanish foreign ministry in a context marked by increasing Jihadist and […]

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Algeria: Tindouf camps, “Time Bomb” Threatening Regional Security

The Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, located in southern Algeria, are a time bomb threatening the security and stability of the whole region, said Ivory Coast newspaper ‘Le Mandat’. In a story published Thursday on the growing terrorist threats in the Sahel-Sahara, the daily said the region is already facing serious challenges, namely terrorism which claimed hundreds […]

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Algeria’s role in perpetuating conflict over Morocco’s Sahara highlighted in Caracas

Moroccan ambassador to the UN Omar Hilale asked Algeria to look in the mirror and acknowledge its role as the real party that has blocked any progress towards a political solution of the artificial conflict over the Sahara. The diplomat made the remark while he was responding to the Algerian ambassador’s speech or diatribe in […]

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Bahrain: Algeria fails to include Sahara issue in Arab Summit agenda

The Algerian regime has suffered another humiliating diplomatic setback following its failure to include the Sahara issue in the agenda of the upcoming Arab summit due in Bahrain May 16. According to diplomatic sources, the Arab League has rejected the Algerian hostile and provocative move, affirming that the Pan-Arab Organization respects the sovereignty of Arab […]