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UN on damage control mission after de Mistura’s Sahara partition blunder

The UN Secretary General’s Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq downplayed the resurrection by UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara Sataffan de Mistura of the partition plan, that was categorically rejected by Morocco twenty years ago. De Mistura has said in a briefing to the Security Council last year that he raised the concept of […]

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Estonia joins growing list of supporters of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Sahara

Estonia became the latest European county to back Morocco’s autonomy plan as a “serious and credible basis” for a lasting solution to the Sahara conflict. “Estonia considers the autonomy plan, presented in April 2007 by Morocco to the Secretary General of the UN, as a good, serious, and credible basis for a lasting solution to […]

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UN Secretary General echoes Morocco’s Atlantic Initiative for the Sahel

UN Secretary General Antonion Guterres highlighted in his annual report on the Sahara territory the relevance of Morocco’s Atlantic initiative to offer the Sahel access to the Atlantic. Guterres referred to the Royal initiative “for the Atlantic coastline becoming a gateway for trade and economic integration with Africa and the Americas by facilitating access for […]

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UN Chief highlights in report to Security Council dynamics of Consulates’ opening in Sahara

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres underlined in his annual report to the Security Council on the Sahara the opening, on August 14 in Dakhla, of Chad’s Consulate General, the 29th of its kind in the Kingdom’s southern provinces, which represents about 42% of the share of African countries. This reference takes place in an international […]

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Algeria’s diplomacy suffers from ‘schizophrenia’, Moroccan diplomat says

Algeria is stuck in a logic of permanent conflict and its diplomacy suffers from a “schizophrenic pathology”, said Morocco’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, about the North African country’s obsession with the Sahara issue. Responding before the 4th Committee of the UN General Assembly to the attacks of his Algerian counterpart, Amar […]

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Situation in Tindouf camps in Algeria contradicts UNHCR’s general mandate

Morocco’s permanent mission pointed out during the 75th session of the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, which concluded its works in Geneva on Friday, that the situation in Tindouf camps in Algeria contradicts the UNHCR’s general mandate. The mission, while reiterating its commitment to the noble humanitarian mandate entrusted to this […]

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UN Fourth Committee reiterates support for UN-led political process on Sahara

The Fourth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly has adopted without a vote a resolution reiterating its support for the political process led under the exclusive auspices of the United Nations for the settlement of the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara. The resolution calls on all parties to fully cooperate with the UN […]

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Sahara: UN Chief recommends extension of MINURSO mandate for one year

United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, on Thursday released his annual report on the Sahara, in which he recommends that the Security Council extend the mandate of MINURSO for one year, until October 31, 2025. As in past years, this report addresses the recent developments in the Sahara issue, both on the ground and at the […]

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As Morocco nears final close to Sahara issue, Algeria beats drums of war

After about five decades of nurturing a separatist chimera in the Sahara territory, Algeria is beating the drums of war again deploying troops on the Moroccan borders as the Sahara issue nears a final close under Moroccan sovereignty. International media has been warning of an Algerian attempt to end the state of “low intensity” war […]

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Algeria moves from backstage to explicit involvement in Sahara issue under Tebboune

For decades, Algeria has played a tacit role in perpetuating the Sahara regional conflict until the military regime recycled itself in the form of a new military-civilian duo that made the dispute a matter of life and death for the Algerian state. Algeria hosted the Polisario group, who at first had no separatist agenda, following […]