First Independent Mena Newspaper
The Polisario has long indoctrinated children and took them to indoctrination camps where they have been trained to become soldiers against their will in a blatant human rights violation. This breach of the rights of children to education and healthy development was denounced once again in Geneva before the international community which is asked more […]
Indonesian university professor Mawardi Ismail has urged the polisario to drop the unrealistic option of independence and accept the pragmatic autonomy plan offered by Morocco for a lasting and peaceful resolution of the Sahara regional conflict. Addressing the 10th international academic research seminar held on Monday at United Nations under the theme: “Territorial autonomy as […]
The inhabitants of the Tindouf camps (southern Algeria) have been complaining about the very slow speed of the Internet this weekend. Some blame the Polisario for this restrictive move amidst growing censorship. It is not a complete shutdown but the sequestered inhabitants find it very hard to exchange online messages or use the Net. According […]
The Polisario crackdown on its opponents and pro-democracy protesters in the Tindouf camps (Southern Algeria) is getting worse, tougher and wider with the arrest this week of Fadel Braika, who was nabbed after the kidnapping of the militant Abba Bouzid, member of the opposition group “Sahrawi Initiative for Change”. Mr. Bouzid was abducted by […]
Morocco denounced in the strongest terms the inclusion of the Polisario separatists flag in the website where the tickets of the African Cup of Nations in Egypt are sold. Spokesperson for the Moroccan government said such an act is categorically unacceptable and that Morocco’s presence within the African Union bodies shall in no way be […]
Both Morocco and Azerbaijan have suffered from the remnants of separatists hosted and armed by hostile neighboring states. Morocco has struggled to recover its territorial integrity and sovereignty after enduring the painful experience of double French and Spanish colonization that drew arbitrary borders, amputating the Kingdom of territories that were until a recent past part […]
A Polisario militiaman was killed and two others were injured in a landmine explosion as a patrol of the separatist group came near the security wall in the demilitarized area. The incident shows once more Polisairo’s recurring provocations of the Moroccan army and their violation of the 1991 ceasefire agreement, which bans any military deployment […]
The Polisario leaders have the blues for they were not invited to the China-Africa Partnership Forum, held lately in Addis Ababa, under the theme “The Belt, Road Dialogue for China-Africa cooperation”. No invitation was extended to the separatist entity for this important event organized by China in collaboration with the African Union (AU) Commission, which […]
What is the reason for the surprise resignation of the German Horst Köhler from his job as special envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara? For Algeria, which voiced its speculations through a Polisario media outlet, American pressures are behind Köhler’s abrupt exit. It is both normal and understandable that a 76 year-old, […]
The Polisario Front, which is drowning in hot water and under fire from all sides, seeks to stir up trouble in the Moroccan Sahara in a desperate attempt to divert attention from the diplomatic setbacks it suffered on the international scene. The Polisario leaders not only encourage their agents to block road traffic at the […]