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French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu reaffirmed on Thursday France’s support for Morocco’s position on Western Sahara, saying Paris’ stance was “unwavering” and would not change, as the two countries prepare a landmark bilateral treaty. Speaking after the 15th Franco-Moroccan High-Level Meeting in Rabat, Lecornu said France understood the importance of the Sahara issue for Morocco […]
Republican Congressmen Scott DesJarlais and Matt Van Epps have joined the list of American lawmakers pushing for the designation of the Algeria-backed Polisario as Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). The “Polisario Front Terrorist Designation Act” was introduced in June 2025 in the U.S. House of Representatives by Republican Joe Wilson and Democrat Representative Jimmy Panetta. If […]
U.S. Permanent Representative to UN Mike Waltz met on Tuesday a delegation of the Sahrawi Movement for Peace, a political body set up in 2020 by former Polisario members who broke away from the Algeria-backed separatist group. These Sahrawis are “voices committed to peace, compromise, and a durable solution,” to the Sahara issue, said the […]
The U.N. Security Council has unanimously adopted lately a resolution authorizing new measures to ensure that perpetrators of crimes against UN peacekeepers face justice. The move makes the Algeria-backed Polisario militias extremely anxious over the fallout of their rocket attacks that targeted the UN Mission in the Sahara. Resolution 2823 on accountability for crimes committed […]
A forum on terrorism held in Spain’s Canary Islands has reignited criticism of the Polisario Front, with victims’ groups and activists urging a reassessment of its status and greater accountability for attacks attributed to the movement. The event, titled “First Forum on Terrorism in the Canary Islands: Global Terrorism and Extremism,” placed a strong spotlight […]
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani received on Thursday in Nouakchott UN Sahara envoy Staffan de Mistura, who is touring the region within the frame of his consultations with the parties to the Sahara conflict to advance the UN-led political process in line with UNSC resolution 2797. De Mistura’s Nouakchott trip comes after his […]
Several delegate and petitioners have called for delisting the Sahara issue from the UN Special Committee after the adoption of the UNSC resolution 2797 endorsing the Autonomy Plan under Moroccan sovereignty, saying the plan is backed by 130 UN Member-States – including three permanent members of the Security Council. UN Security Council Resolution 2797 is […]
Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, used Tuesday’s ordinary session of the UN Committee of 24 (C24) in New York to deliver a forceful restatement of Morocco’s position on its southern provinces, describing Security Council Resolution 2797, adopted on 31 October 2025, as a watershed moment that definitively frames the parameters for […]
Calls are intensifying for the Sahara issue to be withdrawn from the United Nations’ Special Committee on Decolonization (C24), with advocates arguing that recent diplomatic developments, including Security Council Resolution 2797, have fundamentally reframed the dispute as a political and regional question that should be settled on the basis of Morocco’s autonomy plan rather than […]
UN Sahara envoy Staffan de Mistura has met with U.S. Senior Presidential Advisor Massad Boulos following the visit paid lately by the UN envoy to Tindouf Camps and his talks with Polisario leaders to advance the political process for the resolution of the Sahara regional conflict. On this occasion, the Trump administration has stressed again […]