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The circulation of intimate photos of Mrs Olaya Saadi, spouse of Polisario’s opponent Fadel Breika, in detention since last June, triggered a crisis within the separatist front’s leadership, torn apart between those who call for an investigation in the scandal and those who oppose such a move. The indignation and anger of Sahrawi tribes, particularly […]
Since the end of the cold-war, support for the legitimate historical rights of Morocco to its territorial integrity and sovereignty over the Saharan provinces has been on the rise. As Morocco celebrates the 44th anniversary of the Green March following which the country retrieved its southern territories from Spain, King Mohammed VI highlighted in a […]
Morocco is celebrating this Wednesday the 44th anniversary of the Green March epic at a context marked by precious diplomatic gains at the UN and growing support for its plan to end the Sahara dispute. On November 6, 1975, Morocco regained the southern Sahara provinces from Spanish occupation through a Green March of 350,000 strong-willed […]
Anger is growing among the populations of the Polisario-run Tindouf camps following the circulation by the separatist front’s media of intimate photos of the wife of opponent Fadel Breika, who has been detained since June. In a bid to humiliate the Sahraoui activisit and blogger, Fadel Breika, the Polisario “security services” violated his privacy by […]
French author, lawyer and editor Hubert Seillan analyzes in a new book, “Moroccan Sahara: Space and Time,” how, historically, geographically, and sociologically, the disputed Sahara territory is and has “been Moroccan” for centuries and how this Atlantic Sahara has always been an coveted space. The author makes it clear throughout his book, issued by “La […]
Algeria expressed its resentment about the recent UN Security Council resolution on the Sahara which confirmed Algiers’ role in the conflict. Resolution 2494 extends the mandate of the UN mission in the Sahara MINURSO by another year breaking away with a short interruption in which its mandate was only renewed by six months under pressure […]
The era of media-black out in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps is over. The internet and social media have exposed the abhorrent treatment inflicted on thousands of Sahraouis held against their will in the camps in South Western Algeria, said Morocco’s ambassador to the UN Omar Hilale. The Polisario separatists, in connivance with Algeria, turned the […]
UN Security Council commended in its latest resolution on Sahara the work of the National Human Rights Council in the southern cities of Dakhla and Laayoune. The resolution, which extends the mandate of the UN mission in Sahara by another year, welcomed “steps and initiatives taken by Morocco, the role played by the Commissions of […]
The UN Security Council reiterated on Wednesday its “concern” over the Polisario’s violations of military agreements in the Sahara, and urged the separatist movement to respect the “commitments” it made in this regard to the former UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy Horst Köhler. The Security Council reaffirms, in resolution 2494 adopted on Wednesday, “the importance of […]
Resolution 2494 of the UN Security Council renewing for one year the mandate of the UN mission in the Sahara MINURSO has also reiterated the call on Algeria to contribute to the settlement of the Sahara conflict. Algeria, which arms, hosts and backs the Polisairo separatist front diplomatically has refused in the last four decades […]