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Algeria’s pathological obsession with the Moroccan Sahara was exposed before the 4th Committee of the UN General Assembly by the Morocco’s delegation, proving, if need be, that Algeria is indeed a main party to this regional dispute. In response to the Algerian representative’s fallacious allegations regarding the human rights situation in the Moroccan Sahara and […]
The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) urged all African countries to cooperate with the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR including in terms of refugee protection and documentation. In a statement on October 27, the PSC stressed the need for African countries to cooperate with the UN agency on refugee documentation to […]
Pundits have been warning that terror groups in Africa have found a breeding ground for recruiting militants in the huge refugee camps scattered around the continent, including the Polisario-controlled camps in Tindouf in Algeria, with plans to stage attacks on Europe. “Islamists have a strong presence in Africa and recruit in huge refugee camps. And […]
NGO PDES (French acronym for ‘Promotion of Economic and Social Development’) has sounded the alarm about the serious, appalling conditions facing women in conflict zones such as the Tindouf camps in South-Western Algeria, where they are experiencing gender-based violence. Speaking at the annual discussion on women’s rights, held in Geneva as part of the 53rd […]
Anger continues to build up in the Tindouf camps which are rocked by growing demonstrations making Polisario leaders uncomfortable and responding with more repression and arrests of protesters including women. Demonstrators have set fire to cars belonging to the separatist front, while another group burnt a pharmacy belonging to the son of the so-called interior […]
The NGO for Economic & Social Development has called in Geneva on the Algerian authorities to put an end to the sufferings and human rights abuses committed on its territory by Polisario armed militiamen in Tindouf camps. Addressing on Monday the ongoing 52nd session of the Human Rights Council during the Universal Periodic Review of […]
The Algerian army has killed a Sahrawi dweller of the Polisario-run Tindouf camp after shooting a pick-up in which he was transporting smuggled fuel. The assassinated Sahrawi is Said Ould El Bachir Ould Chaabane, a native of the Rguibat Oulad Daoud tribe who was known for making a living out of smuggled fuel. Summary executions […]
Morocco has underlined Algeria’s responsibility, as host country, to guarantee safe and unrestricted humanitarian access to the Tindouf camps and to allow free registration of the populations sequestered in the camps, in accordance with its obligations and the provisions of international humanitarian law. This was outlined in a speech delivered by Morocco’s Permanent Representative in […]
While Sahrawis sequestered in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps are enduring inhumane conditions, their brethren living in Morocco’s southern provinces are enjoying all their rights and participate in the management of public affairs, said on Monday Moroccan justice minister Abdellatif Ouahbi. Addressing the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), convening in Geneva, the […]
The Civil Coalition for the Protection of Children in the Tindouf Camps, which includes more than 120 NGOs, sounded the alarm bell over the alarming situation of Moroccan children sequestered in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, noting that the Algeria-backed separatist group recruits thousands of children, exploits them sexually, enslaves them and forces girls to marry […]