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A large panel of African Members of Parliament, former Foreign Ministers and ambassadors, business leaders, experts and academics as well as civil society activists and think tank representatives called, on Saturday from Dar Es Salaam, for the expulsion of the pseudo-SADR from the African Union (AU). The expulsion of the Algeria-backed puppet republic which has […]
Security Council members are expected to hold this Wednesday consultations behind closed doors on the Sahara. The newly appointed Head of MINURSO Russian Alexander Ivanko and Assistant Secretary-General for Africa in the Departments of Political and Peace-building Affairs and Peace Operations (DPPA-DPO) Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee will make their first presentations before the Council. Pobee […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has confirmed in his latest report to the Security Council on the Moroccan Sahara issue that the polisario has no status at the United Nations. Actually, as in his previous reports, Guterres referred three times to the “polisario representative in New York” and in no way as a “representative to […]
The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, drew the attention of the Security Council to the diversion by the Polisario of humanitarian and financial aid destined to the population held against its will in the Tindouf camps, in Algeria. This came in a report addressed to the Security Council, which will deliberate on the Sahara issue […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has underlined Morocco’s strong commitment to the ceasefire and full cooperation with MINURSO, citing logistical, medical and security supports provided by the Kingdom to the UN mission and its demining operations. In his report submitted recently to the UN Security Council on the Sahara, Mr. Guterres reiterated “Morocco commitment to […]
In its most recent diplomatic blunder, the Algerian foreign ministry called Morocco to leave its southernmost tip of Guerguarat as a condition for finding a “political solution” to a conflict that it has created and perpetuated in the Sahara. The statement was made by Algeria’s foreign ministry in reaction to the official appointment of Staffan […]
Representatives of several NGOs, university professors and international law experts have voiced, at the United Nations, strong support to Morocco’s autonomy plan for a lasting solution to the Sahara conflict. The petitioners also denounced before the UN fourth Committee the ill-treatment, abuse and human rights violations committed in Tindouf Camps by Polisario militias having ties […]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has welcomed the appointment of Staffan de Mistura as a new UN envoy for the Sahara in replacement of German Horst Köhler who stepped down in May 2019. In his twitter account, Mr. Blinken welcomed the appointment of the Italian-Swedish diplomat whose candidacy had been proposed by the UN […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres reaffirmed in his report Algeria’s role in the Sahara conflict and reiterates call for a political, realistic, lasting and mutually acceptable solution to the regional dispute. The call de facto omits the referendum option by stressing the mutually acceptable requirement of the desired solution which the UN has called for […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Gueterres mentioned in a recent report that Polisario militiamen used civilians as a human shield during a three-week blockade of a vital road for West African traffic with Morocco. In a report to the UN Security Council on the situation in the Sahara region, Guterres acknowledged that Polisario armed men have […]