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The Moroccan delegation participating in the Pan-African Parliament meeting, convening in Johannesburg (South Africa), has foiled an attempt by the Polisario to put the Sahara issue on the agenda of the MPs debates. Irked and enraged by their failure, the Polisario members lashed out at the African Parliament standing committee on international relations & conflict’s […]
Nephew of Polisario Chief of Staff arrested in Panama over money smuggling Panama’s customs services arrested, on May 11, Mohamed El-Wali Akik, a nephew of the polisario chief of staff, for smuggling foreign currency valued at $65,000. The arrested individual was brought before the Panamanian Public Prosecution which decided to ban him from traveling until […]
Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita is taking part in the preparatory meetings for the 32nd Arab Summit due in Jeddah on May 19. The summit comes amid ongoing Sudan crisis, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, continuing tension between Morocco and Algeria over the Sahara issue, Syria’s return to the Pan-Arab organization, the Iranian and Turkish interferences in […]
Newsweek has affirmed that the Algerian regime supports the Polisario armed militia with money, weapons and military training, noting that the world does not need another crisis in North Africa. Rabat and Algiers are locked into a decades-long struggle over the Sahara, said the U.S. magazine in an Op-Ed authored by Gordon Chang who described […]
The Sahrawi Movement for Peace (SMP) denounced on Monday the aggression perpetrated by Polisario elements against members of the family of Haj Ahmed Barikallah, first secretary of the MSP in the camp known as Dakhla, in Algeria, alerting against a wave of repression in this camp. In letters addressed to the European Parliament and the […]
Spain has dealt a hard blow to Polisario and its puppeteers during the latest summit of the Ibero-American Conference of Heads of State and Governments, an organization equivalent of the Commonwealth or Francophonie. During this summit convened in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares has foiled a plot hatched by the […]
The Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, has invited the representatives in New York of Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and Polisario “to informal bilateral consultations with him,” ahead of his upcoming briefing to the Security Council due next month. The announcement was made Tuesday by Mr. Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for […]
Iranian drones have made their way to North Africa through Algeria, posing a threat to the stability of the region, at a time Morocco has been calling the international community’s attention to this threat and warning against the acquisition of drones by terrorist and separatist groups. At the end of 2022, Moroccan Senior Officials highlighted […]
Iranian drones made their way to North Africa through Algeria, according to Western security experts, vindicating Morocco’s warnings over the past months of Iranian destabilization acts that fuel terrorism and separatism. Morocco, which has been warning of Iranian incursions in the Sahel via Algeria, rang the alarm bell that the Polisario are seeking Iranian drones […]
The Iranian drones, which are being deployed in North Africa, are posing a direct threat to Morocco, said American daily Boston Herald, noting that Moroccan diplomats are actively raising the issue with Western governments. In an Op-Ed published lately, columnist Llewellyn King said that the Mullah regime, in collusion with Algeria, is supplying the Polisario […]