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Algeria Tightens Movement Restrictions in Tindouf camps

The Algerian regime has tightened the screws on the movement of Sahrawis in Tindouf camps, by stripping them of Algerian passports which they use for traveling overseas. After they ordered the polisario to toughen the entry and exit measures for the Sahrawis living in the Tindouf camps, the Algerian authorities are now withdrawing Algerian passports, […]

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Moroccan MPS urge a head-count of People held by Polisario in Tindouf

Moroccan MPS reiterated their call for a census of the populations held against their will in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps, holding Algeria responsible for the human rights violations that take place in its territories. Speaking at a plenary session of the Pan-African legislative institution held in the South African municipality of Midrand, halfway between Pretoria […]

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Sahara: Polisario Tries to Woo Germany to Exert Pressure on Horst Köhler

Sensing the heat after Morocco scored successive diplomatic victories at the UN, Latin America, Europe and Africa, the Polisario separatist group, supported by Algeria, sent lately a delegation to Berlin in a bid to coax Germany as this country is seeking to obtain the veto rights at the UN Security Council and expand its international […]

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UN-Sahara: Resolution 2468 Drops Definitely Options of “independence” & “referendum”

The latest UN resolution adopted by the Security Council on the Sahara means that the notions of “independence” or “self-determination referendum” are no longer feasible, underlined the Peruvian Solidarity Council with the so-called SADR, the polisario’s self-declared Sahrawi Republic, supported financially, militarily and diplomatically by Algeria. Resolution 2468, which extended the MINURSO mandate for another […]

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Sahara: Argentinian Association Decries Sufferings of Sahrawis in Tindouf camps

The Association of Friends of Morocco in Argentina (ASAMIMARG) has called on the international community to act to put an end to the hardships suffered by the Sahrawis sequestered in the Tindouf camps in Algeria. The Association, which includes academics, researchers, politicians, media professionals, economists and experts, denounced the Polisario brutal repression, abuse and ill-treatment […]

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Tindouf Camps: Popular Protests against Polisario Gaining Momentum

The Tindouf camps in Southern Algeria are rocked by growing protests of the sequestered Sahrawis who are rising up against Polisario militias’ oppression, impunity, injustice, torture and systematic violations of their basic human rights. The separatists started feeling the heat after their Algerian masters were ousted by the popular revolt that is still ongoing. Things […]

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Sahara: Latest UN Resolution Calls for Realistic, Pragmatic & Lasting Solution

Moroccan Secretary of State to Foreign Affairs Mounia Boucetta said on Monday that UN resolution 2468, adopted lately by the Security Council on the Sahara, calls for a realistic, pragmatic and enduring solution based on compromise and thwarts unrealistic and unilateral solutions. Speaking at the question time at the House of Representatives on the Sahara […]

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Morocco’s territorial integrity, Red Line for Saudi Arabia-Ambassador

Saudi Ambassador to Rabat made it clear that his country stands with Morocco in the defense of its territorial integrity and sovereignty over the Sahara. Morocco’s territorial integrity is a “Red Line” for Saudi Arabia and support for Morocco’s sovereignty over its southern provinces is a principle in Riyadh’s foreign policy, Ambassador Abdellah Ben Saad […]

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Moroccan diplomat expounds before C24 historical, legal and political realities of Sahara Issue

Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, made before the regional meeting of the UN Committee of 24 held in Saint George’s, Grenada, May 2-4, a presentation that focused on the historical realities, the legal bases and the political dimensions of the Moroccanness of the Sahara. The diplomat, insisting that the Sahara issue is […]

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Sahara: Several members of UNGA Committee of 24 renew support for Autonomy Initiative

Just a couple of days after the UN Security Council underlined again in its Resolution 2468 the preeminence of the Morocco-proposed autonomy initiative as a basis for the settlement of the Sahara issue, several members of the UN General Assembly Committee of 24 have also voiced full backing to the initiative. During the meeting of […]