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Majority of people in Polisario-run Tindouf camps are not even Sahrawis, a fugitive says

A man who managed to escape the siege imposed on thousands of people in Tindouf has confirmed the information according to which the Polisario and its mentor Algeria were gathering people who were not Sahraouis in the Tindouf camps in order to inflate numbers and perpetuate the chimera of a Sahraoui people seeking for a […]

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Former Polisario member holds Algeria responsible for ordeal of Tindouf Camps populations

President of the Sahrawi League for Democracy and Human Rights, and former member of the polisario separatist front, Hamada El Baihi, provided a damning account of the appalling living conditions in the Tindouf camps, holding Algeria responsible for the ordeal of the camps populations. Hamada El Baihi, who was participating in a recent debate on […]

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Sahara: MEP calls EU to monitor humanitarian aid sent to sequestered Sahrawis in Tindouf

Member of European Parliament Ilhan Kyuchyuk has called on the EU to monitor the humanitarian aid the European bloc sends to the Sahrawis sequestered in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf Camps in Southern Algeria. In a written question to the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, Mr. Kyuchyuk (member of Renew Europe group, previously known as Alliance […]

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New accusations of corruption, embezzlement laid against Polisario leader

Head of the separatist polisario front, Brahim Ghali, has been again accused of the embezzlement of humanitarian assistance donated by Spanish NGOs to the Sahraoui population sequestered in the Tindouf camps. FORSATIN (Forum of support for autonomists of Tindouf) indicated that Spanish civil society is currently collecting donations to be shipped to the Tindouf camps, […]

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How Nordic NGOs turn a blind eye to what is happening in the Tindouf camps

Nordic human rights NGOs are focusing their attention on Moroccan Sahrawis living peacefully in Morocco, while they turn a blind eye to the situation of an entire population victim of polisario abuses in the Tindouf camps. Forced marriages of underage girls are among the most blatant violations of human rights perpetrated by the Polisario in […]

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Aid embezzlement worsens suffering of Sahraouis in Polisario-run camps

A new aid embezzlement scandal emerged in the Tindouf camps after the Polisairo-administered Red Crescent was found guilty of sending aid to stores run by the trade division of the militia to be sold instead of being distributed for free to the targeted vulnerable civilians. This comes amid international concern at reports of a coronavirus […]

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Winds of political change blow on Tindouf camps, Polisario shivers

Winds of change are blowing on the Tindouf camps with the emergence of a new opposition movement calling for a political and mutually acceptable solution to the Sahara issue. The movement which calls itself Sahraouis for Peace breaks away with the ideological rhetoric of the Polisario and its mentor Algeria, reluctant to engage in negotiations […]

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Latin American NGOs denounce Polisario’s stranglehold on Tindouf Camps

Latin American NGOs, forming the Global Africa Latina Foundation, have denounced the Polisario’s military stranglehold on the Tindouf camps where the populations are held in permanent captivity. “The military stranglehold on these camps and the manipulation of international humanitarian aid are keeping the populations in permanent captivity,” the Latin American foundation deplored in a statement […]

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Covid-19: Polisario-Controlled Camps on Verge of Implosion

Anger and frustration of the Sahrawis sequestered in the Polisario-controlled Lahmada camps, southern Algeria, have reached their apex as the separatists’ leaders continue to ignore their daily sufferings, lack of food, water, freedoms and necessary medical protection against coronavirus pandemic. Confined in their desert tents in very harsh conditions and banned from movement, these Sahrawis, […]

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Covid-19: Tindouf Camps populations left by Polisario, Algeria to Fend for Themselves

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread around the world, the populations sequestered in the Tindouf camps, Southern Algeria, are left to fend for themselves in dreadful conditions, while the Polisario leaders are enjoying their comfortable life in their air-conditioned villas in the city of Tindouf as the Algerian authorities closed access to the camps […]