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Morocco’s Return to African Union, Bulwark against Separatist Plots

The predictions of the advocates of separatism in the Sahara were true. Their worst fears that Morocco’s return to the African Union will block their plots to propagate the chimera of an independent Sahara state were vindicated. The first participation of Morocco at an African Union Summit in over three decades proved that the Kingdom […]

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Morocco’s Diplomatic Efforts Strengthen its Foothold at African Union

Gone is the era when Separatist proponents took advantage of Morocco’s absence from the African Union to plot against Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara. The recently found and deserved membership of the African Union offered Morocco a podium to outspokenly voice its legitimate stands and block attempts by the adversaries of its territorial integrity, led […]

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Polisario, ‘a Cold War Relic’- Spanish Writer

The Polisario is a ‘totalitarian organization’, representing an ideological anachronism peculiar to the Cold War era, said Spanish writer Jose Mariia Lizundia in an opinion article on La Provincia. The Polisario “is a myth created by some Sahraoui students in Moroccan universities in the 1970s in connivance with leftist Spanish military officials of the Franco […]

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Polisario Resorts to International Courts to Sap UN Process- Former Spanish FM

The recourse of the Polisario separatists to third country courts is a desperate attempt to sap efforts under the UN process to settle the Sahara issue, Former Spanish Foreign Minister Ana Palacio said in an article published on Dipulico website. The former Spanish Foreign Minister highlighted the importance of settling the Sahara issue within the […]

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Referendum, Unfeasible Solution to Sahara Issue- Italian Official

Italy’s deputy Foreign Minister Mario Giro made  it clear that the referendum option does not offer a feasible solution to the regional conflict over the Sahara and that the Algerian-Backed Polisario separatists had better give up the chimera of conducting a vote on the Sahara’s independence. The Italian official made the remarks during the presentation, […]

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Morocco Foils Separatist Plot at UN’s Special Committee on Decolonization

Morocco and its allies in the UN Special Committee on Decolonization succeeded in averting a plot by Algeria and Venezuela to confer the Polisario separatist entity the status of representative of the Sahara. Thanks to the vigilance of Morocco and its African, Caribbean, Asian and Pacific allies within the UN Committee, Algeria and Venezuela failed […]

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Rapprochement Underway between Morocco, Angola

The visit by Angola’s Foreign Minister Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti to Rabat will help open a new chapter in Angolan-Moroccan relations, breaking away with the animosity that characterized ties between the two countries due to the Sahara issue. The agreements signed during the visit of the Angolan official set the tone for ushering a new […]

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Pro-polisario Spanish Political Leader Arrested on Pedophile Charges

Former Secretary General of the Spanish Socialist Youth in Elche, Alejandro Diaz, was recently arrested and placed on custody on pedophile charges involving minors from the camps of Tindouf. Morocco’s news agency reported that Diaz raped minors coming from the Tindouf camps. The agency, quoting police sources, said that investigators found online conversations in which […]

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Morocco Rejects South Africa’s Seizure of Sahara Phosphate Cargo

The Moroccan government described the South African court decision to maintain seizure of a vessel carrying Sahara phosphates bound for New Zealand as a “violation of international law”. In a statement to the press, Spokesperson for the Moroccan government Mustapha El Khalfi condemned in the strongest terms the ruling by South African court on June […]

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South Africa’s Seizure of Moroccan Phosphate, ‘Political Matter Disguised as Legal Claim’

A South African court ruled on June 15 to maintain the seizure of Cherry Blossom, a ship carrying 55,000 tons of Moroccan Sahara phosphates bound for New Zealand, in a hostile action reflecting the use of the justice system in South Africa by the separatists to settle political matters with Morocco. The court decided that […]