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Is South Africa Abandoning the Polisario? The question was raised just few hours after the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, delivered a speech Tuesday in Pretoria to present his program at the head of the African Union that he will be chairing for a year as of this February. Analysts did not give a clear […]
Spanish Foreign Minister reiterated Friday her country’s steady position in support of the UN process in the Sahara, which aims at reaching a political and mutually acceptable solution to the over-four decade dispute. The Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya, who was on a working visit to Morocco, her first trip abroad, outside the European […]
After the Comoros Islands and Gambia, and most recently Guinea and Gabon comes the turn of Central Africa Republic (CAR) and the Republic of Sao Tome & Principe to open this Thursday, a Consulate General in Laayoune, capital of the Moroccan Sahara. The inaugural ceremony of the Consulate of Sao Tome & Principe in Laayoune, […]
The government of Bolivia has decided to suspend its recognition of the self-proclaimed “SADR” and cut all ties with the Algerian-backed Polisario separatist group, deepening their international isolation. The move was announced on Monday by the Bolivian ministry of foreign Affairs. In a press release, this South American country said “it adopts constructive neutrality” regarding […]
Morocco has condemned in the strongest terms the banditry practiced by the Polisario militias after the Algerian-backed separatist group threatened to disrupt an international car race crossing the tiny buffer strip between Morocco and Mauritania. The remarks were made by Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita Friday at the inauguration ceremony by Guinea of its consulate […]
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias labeled on Wednesday Morocco’s autonomy plan as a “serious and credible approach” for the resolution of the Sahara issue. Athens “deems the Moroccan autonomy plan for the Sahara, submitted to the United Nations, as a serious and credible approach to reach a solution” to this regional conflict, said Mr. Dendias […]
On the footsteps of Comoros and Gambia, Gabon is the next African state to take its support for Morocco’s territorial integrity to the level of opening a consular representation in the Sahara region. Moroccan news portal le360.ma relayed the news, which may further irk the Algerian regime and its puppet the Polisario militia who have […]
The UN expressed satisfaction at the peaceful crossing of the Guerguarat border crossing from Morocco to Mauritania despite verbal provocations by the Algerian-backed separatist militia to disrupt the competition. “We are pleased to see that the Africa Eco Race crossed Guergarat peacefully today,” said Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, during his press briefing […]
Few days after Spanish media recount the horrors suffered by a young lady who managed miraculously to escape to Barcelona after she was sold like a slave by her father to an older man in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps, Italian media turn the spotlight to the prevailing slavery practices in the camps that have been […]
The Algeria-backed polisario separatist group is furious to see the 12th edition of Africa Eco Race Rally going ahead as planned without a glitch despite their threat to disrupt this annual off-road rally race. After arriving in Tangiers (Northern Morocco) coming from Monaco on Januray 7, the 688 competitors with their 266 vehicles (trucks, cars […]