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The newly elected Speaker of Colombia’s House of Representatives Carlos Alberto Cuenca, one of the signatories of the resolution adopted in 2018 by the Colombian parliament backing Morocco’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, has renewed his full support to Morocco’s supreme interests. At a meeting held Monday in Bogota with Moroccan ambassador to Colombia Mrs. Farida […]
The leadership of the Algerian-backed separatist group, the Polisario, is facing a new challenge to its grip on the Tindouf camps as Sahraouis there stage unprecedented protests in their intensity. The protesters, fed up with the siege they have suffered for decades by the Polisario militias, stormed into the office of the separatist group leader, […]
Turkish writer Mohamed Kaddo Afendi Oglu, an expert in Arab-Turkish relations, has confirmed the connections of the Polisario with terror networks threatening the Sahara-Sahel region’s peace and stability. The Turkish writer reached the same conclusion as many pundits and as the Wall Street Journal, which has sounded lately the alarm bell against the dangers […]
The Polisario has once again evidenced its lack of clear-sightedness and its misconception of geopolitics when it joined a group of socialist countries that reject President Donald Trump’s policy towards President Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela. Actually, the separatist front’s representative in Cuba signed at the embassy of Venezuela in Havana an anti-trump petition, part of the […]
Japan has lately repeated once and again that it does not recognize the SADR, self-proclaimed by the Algeria-backed Polisario. Eager to make its position on the Sahara conflict heard by the international community, especially African leaders, Japan on Wednesday reiterated its official position: non-recognition of the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). Actually, Japan’s Foreign […]
Japan was the latest in a series of global powers that strongly reiterated their rejection of the Algerian-backed separatism in southern Morocco. The Japanese stance on the Sahara issue was expressed by Middle East and North Africa director at the foreign ministry Katsuhiko Takahashi who reaffirmed his country’s non-recognition of the Polisario self-declared SADR republic, […]
Morocco has renewed its support to Sierra Leone’s efforts to boost its economic and human development. This came at a meeting Monday in Rabat between the two countries’ Foreign Ministers, Nasser Bourita and Nabeela Tunis, who discussed means of strengthening bilateral cooperation and increasing Morocco’s contribution to the development efforts led by Sierra Leone. […]
Last April, just few months before he hands over power, the former Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, whose country is involved in the UN talks to resolve the Sahara conflict, made a “confidence” to the Palestinian journalist, Abdel Bari Attwane. Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz had then revealed that Western countries simply do not want the establishment […]
Several NGOs and politicians have joined the families of the three Sahrawi activists arbitrarily detained by the Polisario since last June. In this connection, the Sahrawi Khat Shahid movement “the Line of the Martyr” addressed a letter to the United Nations, urging the world body to intervene to end Polisario’s violations and arbitrary detention […]
The non-settlement of the Sahara issue poses a threat for peace and stability in the Sahara-Sahel region and US policymakers are fully aware of the urgency to settle the regional conflict, notes the Wall Street Journal in a long article published Sunday. The Polisario is a Marxist group linked to regional terrorism, so settling the […]