First Independent Mena Newspaper
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has decided to deploy an electronic system in the Tindouf camps to monitor the international humanitarian aid and prevent its embezzlement by the Polisario in connivance with some Algerian officials. The move is the first of its kind made by the United Nations to combat the misappropriation and diversion of […]
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 […]
There are new developments in the case of the three Sahrawi pro-democracy protestors arrested last week by the Polisario. The Sahrawi Association for the Defense of Human Rights (ASADEH) has urged the Spanish Embassy in Algiers to provide legal assistance to Moulay Abba Bouzid, Fadel Brika and Mahmoud Zeidan. “We have informed the Spanish Consul […]
Morocco has called on the African Commission on Human Rights to address the flagrant human rights violations committed in the Tindouf camps in southwest Algeria. The call was launched this week in Addis Ababa by Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the African Union and ECA Mohammed Arrouchi. “The Human rights situation in member countries must be […]
A group of sixty Sahrawis of the Tindouf camps, southern Algeria, staged lately a sit-in in front of the Headquarters of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), to demand the protection of the United Nations against the oppression and tyranny of the Polisario militiamen. The protesters, who gathered outside UNHCR headquarters on June 13, […]
The Algerian regime has tightened the screws on the movement of Sahrawis in Tindouf camps, by stripping them of Algerian passports which they use for traveling overseas. After they ordered the polisario to toughen the entry and exit measures for the Sahrawis living in the Tindouf camps, the Algerian authorities are now withdrawing Algerian passports, […]
Moroccan MPS reiterated their call for a census of the populations held against their will in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps, holding Algeria responsible for the human rights violations that take place in its territories. Speaking at a plenary session of the Pan-African legislative institution held in the South African municipality of Midrand, halfway between Pretoria […]
The Association of Friends of Morocco in Argentina (ASAMIMARG) has called on the international community to act to put an end to the hardships suffered by the Sahrawis sequestered in the Tindouf camps in Algeria. The Association, which includes academics, researchers, politicians, media professionals, economists and experts, denounced the Polisario brutal repression, abuse and ill-treatment […]
The Tindouf camps in Southern Algeria are rocked by growing protests of the sequestered Sahrawis who are rising up against Polisario militias’ oppression, impunity, injustice, torture and systematic violations of their basic human rights. The separatists started feeling the heat after their Algerian masters were ousted by the popular revolt that is still ongoing. Things […]
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 […]