First Independent Mena Newspaper
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney gave the cold shoulder to a Polisario lobbyist and reiterated Ireland’s position in favor of a political solution to the Sahara regional conflict under the umbrella of the UN. As Ireland prepares to open an embassy in Rabat, Coveney told MPS at the question time that his country “supports the […]
As the UN Secretary General braces to submit his new report on the Sahara to the Security Council in October with no words on the new UN envoy for the Sahara, the Algerian rulers and the Polisario leaders are becoming more hysterical and agitated. They unleash their frustration and anger at the United Nations and […]
The Algeria-backed polisario separatist group has accused the United Nations of violating the ceasefire agreement, concluded in 1991, after the UN dropped definitively the referendum option for the settlement of the Sahara, insisting on a realistic, practical and lasting political solution to the Sahara issue. The Algerian-Polisario duo seized the opportunity of the 29th anniversary […]
The pro-polisario operatives planted in Morocco’s southern provinces have shown their true face when they ripped into each other over their share of the money they receive from Algeria to fund their hostile activities and campaigns against Morocco. They turned on each other for cash and their ugly squabble ended up in a mess and […]
In a report covering a decade of the UN action in the Sahara, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres deplored the destructive role played by Algeria in blocking a political solution to the over four-decade conflict. The report points out to the multiple efforts led by successive UN envoys citing the roundtables held in December 2018 […]
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has recently submitted a report on the Sahara issue to the UN General Assembly, covering the period from 2011 to 2020, reaffirming Algeria’s role as the main party to the regional dispute, as established by the Security Council, in several of its resolutions, and the preeminence of the Autonomy […]
The new ambassador of South Sudan to Morocco Riek Puok Riek reaffirmed his country’s supportive stand to the Kingdom’s sovereignty over the Sahara and to its territorial integrity. Speaking to reporters following his meeting in Rabat with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita to whom he handed copies of his credentials, Reik said Juba backs fully […]
The Algeria-backed Polisario front has suffered another major diplomatic setback as Suriname reaffirmed on Monday its non-recognition of the self-proclaimed “SADR”. In a joint statement released following a phone conversation with his Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita, the Surinamese Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin affirmed that the authorities of the south American country stand by the decision […]
The European Union (EU) has again called for an accurate assessment of the fate of the European humanitarian aid sent to the Tindouf camps and of the beneficiaries of this aid, in the absence of reliable statistics and an official census of the population held in captivity in Tindouf. In response to an MEP’s question, […]
The polisario leaders are vainly making reassuring statements on the coronavirus situation in the Tindouf camps. However, the Sahrawis sequestered in the Tindouf camps, Southern Algeria, are increasingly concerned over the growing number of covid-19 infections and rising death toll, which are pushing the polisario to hide the true extent of the covid-19 pandemic with […]