First Independent Mena Newspaper
Serbian Foreign Minister, Nicola Selakovic, has commended the efforts made by Morocco in order to reach a realistic, practical and enduring political solution to the Sahara issue in a spirit of compromise and realism and in full compliance with UN Security Council resolutions. “The Republic of Serbia considers the Moroccan Autonomy Initiative, under Moroccan […]
The government of Djibouti has reaffirmed its strong backing to Morocco’s territorial integrity and to a negotiated political solution to the Sahara issue under the exclusive aegis of the United Nations. The stand was voiced Tuesday by Djibouti’s foreign minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf during talks he held remotely with Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita. Rabat […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Algerian FM Sabri Boukadoum had on Thursday, for the first time, a telephone conversation, under the Biden Administration, but the two top diplomats gave different accounts of their talks, leaving many scratching their heads. In his posted tweet, Boukadoum said Western Sahara was discussed, but Secretary Blinken made […]
Members of the Foreign Affairs Committee at the Moroccan House of Advisers (upper house) on Tuesday called on the Spanish judicial authorities to interact positively with the complaints filed against the Polisario leader Brahim Ghali by several of his victims, and to initiate the arrest procedure against him. In a statement issued at the […]
Ghali’s hospitalization in Spain under a false identity is an embarrassing intelligence failure for Spain and Algeria and a breakthrough for Morocco. Ghali entered Spain on board an Algerian airplane using an Algerian passport and a false identity putting to the test the Moroccan-Spanish partnership and cooperation. Spain and Algeria had agreed at the highest […]
Following the American recognition of the Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara, Spanish government has frowned at the Trump historic and bold decision which took neighboring countries by surprise. As it could not challenge openly Washington’s move, Madrid, the former colonial power of Western Sahara, keeps fuming and edged closer to Algiers to the detriment of […]
The Sahrawi Movement for Peace, a movement promoted by dissidents of the Polisario, commemorated the first anniversary of its creation by organizing an online conference on Wednesday, April 21 in Laayoune, and former Spanish Prime Minister, the socialist José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, was once again the guest of honor of the event. Taking the floor, […]
The UN Security Council has ended its briefing on the Sahara territory without a statement as the UN mission in the Sahara continues business as usual giving a cold shower to the Polisario and its mentor Algeria who have seen their propaganda about an imaginary war in the territory collapse on the UN rock. UN […]
The UN Security Council has denounced the blockade by the Polisario armed militias last fall of the Guerguarate crossing point that hampered the movement of people and goods between Morocco and Mauritania. This came during the Security Council’s semi-annual consultation meeting on the Sahara which was held on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, behind closed […]
Morocco has accused Algeria and the Polisario of obstructing the UN-led political process for the resolution of the Sahara conflict, saying that in less than three months they snubbed two candidates proposed by the UN Chief as a new UN envoy for the Sahara in replacement of Horst Köhler who stepped down in May 2019. […]