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Algeria’s voice is becoming increasingly inaudible in the African Union as it continues to be rebuked by international NGOs for its ill-treatment of Sub-Saharan migrants. The 31st summit, held in Nouakchott July 1-2, clearly shows that the Pan-African organization is breaking free of the Algiers-Pretoria pro-Polisario axis, which has been using the African Union for […]
Khatt Achahid, a Sahrawi movement, has sent a letter to the African Union contesting the self-declared SADR entity’s claim to be sole representative of the Sahrawi people. The group protests that the Polisario is treated by some African countries as a representative of the Sahrawi people, a claim that is contradicted by the reality on […]
Morocco is reaping the benefits of its return to the African Union as the continental organization is gradually remedying its past biases in the Sahara issue by affirming that the UN is the sole body that can lead talks for a solution, while calling on Algeria and Mauritania to contribute to find a lasting settlement […]
The personal envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Moroccan Sahara, Horst Köhler, described as “fruitful” the various meetings he held in Laayoune, Smara and Dakhla during his first visit to the Moroccan southern provinces. “I am satisfied with this visit during which I met many people and visited different places,” said Horst Köhler in […]
UN Secretary General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Horst Kohler, who paid a visit to the Sahara met with members of the regional commissions for human rights (CRDH) in Laayoune who briefed him on their work and the human rights conditions in the region. President of the CRDH in Laayoune said the meeting with Kohler […]
The Morocco-proposed autonomy plan is an option to solve the Sahara issue, said, Friday, the US Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan who is on a visit to the Kingdom as part of a regional tour. “Our policy in this regard has not changed. We consider that the Moroccan project for autonomy in the Sahara […]
UN Envoy for the Sahara Horst Köhler, who is currently touring the region, met Wednesday in Rabat with Head of Moroccan Government Saad Eddine El Othmani and with Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. Köhler, a former German president and ex-director of the International Monetary Fund, arrived in Morocco within the frame of his second regional tour […]
Morocco has stepped up its diplomatic efforts in South America winning the support of countries that were until recently supporters of the Algerian-funded separatists’ thesis in the Sahara. The reiteration by Paraguay of its support for Morocco’s autonomy initiative as a lasting political solution to the regional dispute over the southern provinces comes in a […]
The UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Horst Köhler, will begin a ten-day visit to the region on Saturday (June 23), it was officially announced in New York Thursday. “I can confirm that Horst Köhler, the Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara will conduct a new tour of the region from June 23 to […]
Several members of the European Parliament have denounced the “appalling”, “inhumane” and “intolerable” situation endured by the Sahrawi women held against their will by the Polisario separatist group, which is armed, funded and sheltered by Algeria. At a parliamentary debate, the MEPs urged the European Union to intervene immediately to put an end to the […]