First Independent Mena Newspaper
Sensing the heat after Morocco scored successive diplomatic victories at the UN, Latin America, Europe and Africa, the Polisario separatist group, supported by Algeria, sent lately a delegation to Berlin in a bid to coax Germany as this country is seeking to obtain the veto rights at the UN Security Council and expand its international […]
Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, made before the regional meeting of the UN Committee of 24 held in Saint George’s, Grenada, May 2-4, a presentation that focused on the historical realities, the legal bases and the political dimensions of the Moroccanness of the Sahara. The diplomat, insisting that the Sahara issue is […]
The UN Security Council has dealt a hard blow to the Polisario thugs, the Algerian and South African leaders, with the adoption last Tuesday of resolution 2468 with a large majority. In this resolution, the Council underlined, once again, the importance of respecting fully its commitments in order to maintain the momentum of the political […]
As expected, Algeria and the Polisario were displeased with Sahara resolution 2468 adopted last Tuesday by the UN Security Council with a large majority of 13 votes in favor and two abstentions (Russia and South Africa). According to sources close to the UN, the Polisario and its Algerian sponsors were very upset by this resolution, […]
The polisario and its mentors must understand that the world has changed and that the era of separatism is bygone, said, on Tuesday in New York, Morocco’s ambassador to the UN Omar Hilale, affirming that autonomy remains the only solution to the Sahara regional conflict. Speaking to journalists at the UN headquarters following the adoption […]
It seems that the protest movement, which is rocking Algeria since February, has reached the southern region of the country, and particularly the Tindouf camps where the sequestered sahrawis are rising up against the Polisario militias, which are armed, funded and sheltered by the Algerian military. In a bid to intimidate Sahrawi protesters, fed up […]
The Sahrawis sequestered in the Tindouf camps can no longer take it. They are fed up with the corrupt, feckless and repressive leaders of the Polisario separatists, who are armed, funded and sheltered by the Algerian regime. These Sahrawis held against their will organized lately in the so-called “wilaya of Boujdour” a sit-in to protest […]
For 43 years, Algeria has relegated a part of its territory to a ruthless separatist militia taking thousands of Sahraouis hostage, denying them basic rights and liberties including the freedom of movement and the right to return to their homeland, a documentary conducted by Spanish investigative journalist Patricia Medjidi Juez showed. The documentary, dubbed From […]
Violent clashes occurred Saturday evening within the Polisario-run Tindouf camps. The confrontations opposed members of two factions of the Rguibat tribe, causing serious material damage. The violent clashes in the so-called “Smara” camp opposed Ahl Lahcen Ouhmad and Oulad Moussa factions of the Rguibat tribe. According to concordant sources and videos relayed on social networks, […]
Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat has reaffirmed the African Union’s full backing to the decision adopted by the African summit of Nouakchott on the Sahara and UN efforts made to reach a mutually acceptable political solution to this regional conflict. The report submitted by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the Security […]