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The embezzlement of humanitarian aid is endemic among the corrupt Polisario and Algerian officials, despite international outcry by the EU and humanitarian NGOS. This time, aid worth $12 million was derailed to enrich merciless separatist officials in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps. The aid was offered in April and May by the EU, Canada, Switzerland, Italy, […]
Presidents of Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra and Dakhla Oued Eddahab regions, Sidi Hamdi Ould Errachid and Yanja El Khattat, have debunked the slanderous allegations circulated by the Polisario and its mentor, Algeria, about human rights in the Sahara. “These are actually outrageous fabrications, which are part of a shameless political manipulation of human rights,” the presidents […]
Member of the European Parliament Olivier Chastel has raised the issue of the ongoing embezzlement by the Polisario and Algeria of EU humanitarian aid sent annually to the Sahrawis sequestered in the Tindouf camps. This confirms a growing concern of MEPs over this misappropriation, which was decried by Italian human rights NGOs. In his written […]
Merchants in the Polisario-Run Tindouf camps in Southwestern Algeria stepped up their protests against a leadership they blame for the surge of coronavirus cases. The protesters decried the endemic corruption within the Polisario ranks with blessings from the Algerian mentor. A lockdown has deprived many merchants and artisans from their source of revenue without benefiting […]
The Polisario has suffered another setback in Spain, where Pedro Sanchez’s government has rejected attempts by the Algeria-backed separatist movement to lay some improbable responsibility on Madrid with regard to the Moroccan Sahara. “Spain considers itself detached from any international responsibility for the administration” of the Sahara. And this, “since the letter sent on […]
The Algerian regime made a volt-face concerning the coronavirus outbreak ending weeks of denial and asking forurgent help to contain the virus in the Polisario-run camps. Algeria has abdicated its sovereignty, giving a part of its territories and leaving thousands of Sahraouis under the mercy of a totalitarian separatist militia, which unrelentingly crack down on […]
The Spanish prosecutors are building cases against the Polisario chief Brahim Ghali and his close aides for the crimes, abuses and human rights violations committed against sequestered Sahrawis in the Tindouf Camps, Southern Algeria. Several complaints have been filed in Spain by associations and a young Sahrawi girl for human rights violations against the separatists […]
The Tindouf camps are in turmoil despite the coronavirus induced confinement. This time, it was the tradesmen operating inside these camps who took to the streets, accusing the Polisario leaders of having “methodically killed their subsistence activity”. Thursday, for the second consecutive day, hundreds of Sahrawi tradesmen have organized a sit-in, which they describe as […]
Several Sahrawi human rights & development NGOs operating in the Moroccan Sahara have hailed the freedom, which is governed in Morocco by an evolving and credible institutional and legal framework. In a letter sent to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, 925 NGOs said: “as local Sahrawi organizations operating freely on their […]
International policy expert Marco Iaconetti has called on the Italian government to launch investigations on the fate of the humanitarian aid it sends to the Tindouf camps in Algeria, noting that evidence rather showed that the aid, supposed to be humanitarian, actually was used to buy arms. In press articles he published after the […]