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Members of the UN Security Council started on Monday consultations on the draft resolution tabled by the United States on the Sahara for the renewal of the MINURSO mandate, which expires on April 30. According to diplomatic sources cited by Hespress web site, the draft resolution includes the same provisions as those of resolution 2414, […]
Egypt’s ambassador to Morocco, Ashraf Ibrahim, has adamantly affirmed that his country has not recognized the so-called Polisario and will not recognize the separatist front. The Egyptian ambassador assured in an interview with le360, a Moroccan news website, that his country has never changed its position on this issue and underlined that Egypt “has not […]
The New draft resolution on the Sahara that the Security Council is expected to adopt at the end of April is like the previous one. It focuses on the renewal of MINURSO’s mandate for another six months and does not include a human rights component as requested by the Polisario and its Algerian and South […]
The Sahrawis sequestered in the Tindouf camps can no longer take it. They are fed up with the corrupt, feckless and repressive leaders of the Polisario separatists, who are armed, funded and sheltered by the Algerian regime. These Sahrawis held against their will organized lately in the so-called “wilaya of Boujdour” a sit-in to protest […]
It seems that Morocco is dissatisfied over the latest developments at the Security Council regarding the Sahara issue. This is apparent from the statement made lately by spokesman for the Government Mustapha El Khalfi who said that Foreign Affairs minister Nasser Bourrita has briefed the Govt. council on the Kingdom’s positions on this subject matter. […]
The Czech Republic supports a peaceful, realistic and lasting resolution of the Sahara issue through UN-led process, said on Wednesday in Rabat Vice-speaker of the Czech Senate Jiří Oberfalzer. Speaking to journalists after his meeting with Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Mounia Boucetta, Mr. Oberfalzer welcomed the autonomy plan offered by Morocco for the […]
“Morocco wants a realistic solution to the Sahara issue”, said on Tuesday in Moscow Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in a statement to Russian news agency “Sputnik” on the sidelines of his participation in the 5th Arab-Russian Cooperation Forum. In his interview, the minister urged all parties to the Sahara conflict to “show realism and a […]
Several civil society representatives called, on Monday in Rabat, for the opening of an immediate international investigation on the human rights violations committed by the Polisario in Tindouf camps, southern Algeria. In the final statement issued after their meeting organized by “SOS Tindouf camps” NGO, participants urged regional and international human rights advocates to condemn […]
The last days of Jacob Zuma in power and his meeting with King Mohammed VI were perceived as light at the end of the tunnel of relations between two of Africa’s economic heavyweights, but the persistence of the ANC- led administration in Pretoria puts Morocco and South Africa in a new face-off in which the […]
Mauritanian President Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz made a volt face by declaring an outright support for Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara making it clear that Rabat and Nouakchott share borders with no entity in between. “There is no state between us” said the President in an interview with Arai Al Yaoum news portal. The statement […]