First Independent Mena Newspaper
Mauritanian president returned from a short visit to Algeria without his main bodyguard who was reported dead in a suspicious incident. While Algerian pro-regime media speak of a car accident, Mauritanian media says the President’s convoy was attacked in Tindouf area by armed men loyal to a Mauritanian dissident based in Algeria. Videos on twitter […]
President of the Spanish Government President Pedro Sánchez reiterated, on Wednesday from Rabat, his country’s position supporting the autonomy plan presented by Morocco in 2007, to resolve the artificial dispute over the Sahara. Speaking at a news conference held at the end of his working visit to the Kingdom, Sánchez reaffirmed the Spanish government’s position […]
The Sahara issue is no longer on the agenda at the African Union, as the recently concluded 37th Summit of Heads of State and Government, the supreme body of the pan-African institution, made no reference or quotation on the national question, said Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita. Since Morocco’s return to the African Union […]
The United States, the United Kingdom and Spain have issued security alerts, warning their citizens residing in or visiting Algeria against any travel to the city of Tindouf or the surrounding Polisario-controlled camps. The travel warnings came amid ongoing demonstrations organized by young Sahrawis in the city and its surroundings against the Polisario and Algerian […]
The Algerian regime has deployed a propaganda campaign for its Polisario chief puppet in Ireland in a bid to deflect the attention from diplomatic setbacks suffered around the world, but the multi-dollar PR operation ended in total failure and disappointment. The Algerian intelligence services have organized a trip to Dublin for Head of Polisario militia […]
Cooperation between the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces and the UN mission for the Sahara, MINURSO, was reviewed at a meeting in Agadir Thursday between Inspector General of FAR and Commander of the South Zone, Lieutenant General Mohammed Berrid, and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Head of MINURSO, Alexander Ivanko. MINURSO chief […]
An announced visit by Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares to Algiers never took place, due to what Spanish media ascribe to the conflicting agenda of Tebboune. According to analysts, the visit could have signaled a rapprochement between the two countries after Algiers protested at the sovereign decision of Madrid to back Morocco on the […]
As it continues to deepen its isolation in its immediate neighbourhood, the blunders of a military-controlled diplomacy have ensued new setbacks in ties with Saudi Arabia, where Algeria’s genuine ruler general Said Chengriha has spent more than ten days without being able to meet Saudi leader Mohamed Bin Salman. Chengriha, who pulls the strings of […]
Spain has officially reaffirmed that the Moroccan Autonomy Plan for the Sahara, presented in 2007, is “the most serious, realistic and credible basis for the resolution of this dispute” and underlined the importance of Sahara issue for Morocco. This came in a written response by the Government to the question asked at the congress by […]
An Algerian prison sentence against a member of the Rguibat tribe provoked violent protests that took aim at the Polisario leadership in the Tindouf camps. Ahmed Ould Ben Ali, one of the thousands of disenchanted youths in Tindouf camps, was sentenced to 5 years in prison by the Algerian court on charges of drug trafficking. […]