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Growing international calls for designating Polisario terrorist organization

An increasingly broad international consensus is emerging across the globe for including the Algeria-backed polisario militias in the U.S. terror black list. Several influential politicians, Associate professors and analysts from Europe, Latin American, the United States…have backed the findings of the recent report published by U.S. Hudson Institute urging the Trump administration to designate the […]

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New document shows involvement of Bashar’s Syria in training Polisario fighters

Moroccan media, Le360, has released a new proof showing the connivance between Algeria and the fallen Syrian regime of Bashar Assad in providing training to the Polisario front. The new document by the Syrian intelligence shows an agreement between the Algerian and Syrian defense ministries to send 120 Polisario fighters to be trained in Syria, […]

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Calls mount in UK to designate Polisario as terrorist group

Former UK defense and trade minister and once member of Parliament Liam Fox added his voice to US congressmen, pundits, regional experts and western think tanks who have recently made the case for designating the Polisario as a terrorist group in view of the militia’s involvement in targeting civilians, violating UN ceasefire and acting in […]

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Finnish paper warns of Polisario-Iran nexus

Finland Daily, a digital Finnish paper, warned of the connivance between the Algeria-backed Polisario separatists and Iran as a “major security threat to Europe.” “North Africa, especially Algeria and Libya, has become a hotspot for illicit trade in arms, drugs, and human trafficking, activities that are commonly linked to Iranian proxies and now increasingly to […]

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Hudson Institute makes case for designating Polisario terrorist group

In a detailed analysis, the Hudson Institute urged the US administration to designate the Polisario as a terrorist group, citing the militias’ involvement in destabilizing acts in the region, in connivance with its main sponsor Algeria, as well as Iran, which has been using the separatist group to gain a foothold in North Africa. The […]

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U.S. position on Moroccan Sahara is clear, leaves no room for ambiguity – Senior Advisor for Africa says

The United States’ position on Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara is “clear, unequivocal…and leaves no room for ambiguity,” said president Donald Trump’s Senior Advisor for Africa, Massad Boulos. The U.S. expressed this position repeatedly and clearly, just as Secretary of State Marco Rubio clearly did last week, Boulos emphasized in an exclusive interview with Medi1 […]

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Mail & Guardian: Pretoria weighing economic & political risks of U.S. designation of Polisario terrorist organization

The American designation of the Polisario a foreign terrorist organization will have serious implications for South Africa, warned South-African newspaper Mail & Guardian. Such a designation will deprive the separatist group of its traditional state supporters namely Algeria and South Africa, said the daily in a recent Op-Ed authored by Michael Walsh, senior fellow at […]

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U.S. Foundation for Defense of Democracies calls for designating Polisario terrorist organization

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) has called on the Trump administration to designate the Algeria-backed Polisario armed militias terrorist organization for its proven ties with Iran & Hezbollah and deadly rocket attacks launched against civilians in Smara, Southern Morocco. In an analysis titled: “Iran’s Foothold Reaches into North Africa”, the experts of the […]

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Hungary’s Ambassador to Rabat to visit Moroccan Sahara, another setback for Algerian regime

The Hungarian ambassador to Morocco will visit the Sahara following suit of the trips paid by diplomats of other major countries. This sends a strong message to the Algerian junta and its proxy, the polisario separatists. The announcement of this visit was made by foreign minister Peter Szijjártó following talks held Wednesday in Budapest with […]

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Sahara: Croatia joins chorus of European states supporting Morocco’s Autonomy Plan as solid basis for Sahara issue settlement

The government of Croatia has joined several other European countries in expressing support for the “serious and credible” autonomy plan offered by Morocco for the Sahara under its sovereignty, saying the plan is a solid basis for reaching a political and mutually acceptable solution in line with UN Security Council resolutions. The supportive stand was […]