The Security Council renewed on Oct. 30 the mandate of the United Nations’s mission to the Sahara (MINURSO) for another year, while stressing the relevance of Morocco’s autonomy plan as a political, mutually acceptable solution to the over four-decade dispute. In resolution 2548, the Council also urged the UN chief to appoint an Envoy to […]
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Gabonese FM visits his country’s consulate in Laayoune
Gabon’s foreign minister Pacôme Moubelet Boubeya visited the consulate of his country in Laayoune, Saharan provinces, where he reiterated Gabon’s steady support for Morocco’s territorial integrity. “We are thoroughly on Morocco’s side” regarding the Sahara issue, Moubelet Boubeya told reporters following talks with local officials. local officials highlighted the natural and economic assets of […]
Morocco makes diplomatic breakthrough in southern Africa
Morocco has ushered a policy based on win-win partnerships and solidarity that was bolstered after its glorious return to the African Union in late 2017 and is now reaping the benefits with a growing support for its territorial integrity and sovereignty over the Sahara region. Zambia and Eswatini, a day after inaugurating embassies to Rabat, […]
Polisario threatens UN peace process as Morocco’s Sahara position gains more international support
More African states have expressed support for Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara by opening consulates there at a context the Polisario, more isolated than ever, threatens to resume violations of UN-ceasefire agreement. In a single day, Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea and Guinea Bissau opened consulates in the southern city of Dakhla. A couple of days […]
Chad backs Morocco’s political solution to Sahara dispute
Chad Monday threw its weight behind Morocco’s autonomy proposal for the Sahara, whose independence is claimed by the Algeria-backed separatist Polisario front. Chadian Foreign Minister Amine Abba Sidick stressed his country’s position as he visited his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita in Rabat. Chad, the Foreign Minister recalled, has severed ties with the pseudo-Sahrawi Republic since […]
Sahara: Kingdom of Eswatini, Zambia Open Consulates in Laayoune
The Kingdom of Eswatini opened on Tuesday a Consulate General in the Southern Moroccan city of Laayoune. It is the 7th African diplomatic mission installed in the capital of the Moroccan Sahara in less than a year. The inauguration ceremony of this consulate was co-chaired by Eswatini and Moroccan Foreign Ministers, Thulisile Dladla and Nasser […]
Moroccan political party alerts EU parliament to aid embezzlement by the Polisario
Morocco’s opposition party, Istiqlal, wrote to the President of the EU parliament about the recent surge in aid embezzlement by the Polisario, an Algerian-backed separatist group whose leaders trade in foodstuff sent to the Tindouf camps population. Istiqlal MPs deplored in a letter that this diversion of humanitarian aid takes place in full connivance of […]
UN 4th Committee: Several Countries Support Political Solution to Sahara Issue
Representatives of several countries have expressed at the United Nations their full support to the sustained efforts made by the UN for the resolution of the Sahara issue, commending Morocco’s “realistic and credible” plan for the settlement of this regional conflict. Addressing the UN fourth committee currently convening in NY, the delegate of Qatar […]
Polisario’s frauds & scams scandal exposed by UN Chief
The scams operated by the Algeria-backed Polisario group at the United Nations have been exposed by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his latest report to the Security Council on the Sahara. In their elaborate schemes to deceive the international community after the series of diplomatic setbacks suffered by the separatists and their Algerian supporters, […]
Algerian Army openly touts its hostility towards Morocco, reaffirms support to serparatist Polisario
The Algerian Army, which continues to hold firmly the reins of power in the country, making and unmaking presidents, shows no signs of giving up its privileges and of course its senseless perpetual hostility against Morocco. In the army’s latest monthly magazine, “El Djeich”, the Algerian Generals, the de factor rulers, voice their deep hatred […]