First Independent Mena Newspaper
Algeria has not yet made an official reaction to a security council resolution calling for a mutually acceptable solution to the Sahara issue, while reiterating the credible and serious character of Morocco’s autonomy plan. The resolution repeated its call on Algeria as a party to the conflict to take part actively in the round tables […]
Tens of thousands of people staged on Sunday Nov.5 demonstrations in several Sahara cities, including Laayoune, Dakhla, and Smara to denounce the terrorist acts of the Polisario against the city of Smara, the spiritual capital of the Moroccan Sahara. On the eve of the celebrations of the Green March 48th anniversary, tens of thousands of […]
Algeria’s pathological obsession with the Moroccan Sahara was exposed before the 4th Committee of the UN General Assembly by the Morocco’s delegation, proving, if need be, that Algeria is indeed a main party to this regional dispute. In response to the Algerian representative’s fallacious allegations regarding the human rights situation in the Moroccan Sahara and […]
The projectiles fired into Smara on Saturday killing one and injuring three others are a “terrorist act” and an “act of war” that will not go unpunished, said Omar Hilale Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN. Speaking to the press after the renewal of the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Sahara for […]
Despite the frost in Rabat-Paris relations, France has leant towards Morocco’s stance at the UN urging all parties, including Algeria, to resume the round tables process with a view to finding a political solution to the Sahara conflict, while stressing the pre-eminence of the autonomy plan. “I reaffirm the historic and straightforward and steady support […]
The UN Security Council deplored the abject living conditions and rights violations in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps in Algeria and urged a headcount of the population held there. The Council strongly reiterated its “request for a refugee registration in the Tindouf refugee camps,” reads the resolution 2703 adopted following a vote of 13 in favor […]
The UN Security Council has barred the road to any reference to the obsolete and unfeasible referendum option, stating clearly that the MINURSO should align its focus to help achieve a mutually acceptable solution based on compromise. The UN Security Council “emphasizes the need to achieve a realistic, practicable, enduring and mutually acceptable political solution […]
Morocco welcomed the UN Security Council Resolution 2703 renewing for another year the mandate of the peacekeeping mission in the Sahara, MINURSO, and reiterating the credible and serious character of the autonomy plan. “The growing international support for the autonomy initiative and the opening in Laayoune and Dakhla of some 30 consulates and the non-recognition […]
The United Nations Security Council decided on Monday to extend the mandate of the UN Mission for the Sahara, MINURSO, for one year, while enshrining, once again, the preeminence of the Moroccan autonomy initiative to settle the regional dispute over the Sahara. The Security Council “decides to extend the mandate of MINURSO until October 31, […]
UK Foreign Office has renewed its supportive stand to the “UN-led efforts to reach a just, lasting, and mutually acceptable political solution” to the Sahara regional conflict. Responding to a written question on the Sahara issue at the House of Commons, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State David Rutley said : “We support the work of Staffan […]