First Independent Mena Newspaper
Polisario militiamen fired live ammunition to abort a protest movement by disenchanted Sahrawis, decrying inhumane treatment and violations in the Tindouf camps in Algeria’s southwest. The protesters were planning a protest in front of the headquarters of the separatist group to express their anger at the death of Salek Brika, a Sahrawi political activists, who […]
The UN Security Council has never referred to the Sahara issue as a decolonization question but rather a regional dispute examined under Chapter VI relating to the peaceful settlement of disputes, Morocco’s Ambassador and permanent representative to the UN Omar Hilale said. The Sahara issue is at the heart of Morocco’s completion of its territorial […]
South Africa’s election to the UN Security Council is a chance for the rainbow country to bridge the gap between the Council and the African Union but its support for the separatist SADR entity puts Pretoria at odds with leading African countries, The Globe and Mail, a South African paper, said. Citing an expert from […]
The Andean Parliament unanimously expressed full support for Morocco’s initiative to grant autonomy to its southern provinces as a lasting political solution to the regional conflict over the Sahara. The members of the Parliament, who met in the southern Chilean city of Pucon, cited UN resolution of April 30, 2007 describing the autonomy initiative as […]
Hungary has dealt a blow to the propaganda machine of the separatists by affirming that it has not accredited a Polisairo representative in Budapest. This denial was issued after a pro-Separatists website claimed that Ahmed Slimane was appointed as Polisario’s diplomatic representative in Hungary. In reaction to this fake news, Hungarian authorities sent a letter […]
Morocco has sent a clear message to the Polisario and its mentor Algeria with a massive military drills simulating a deployment beyond the Morocco-built security wall in the Sahara territory. The annual drills, dubbed “Tafilalet 2018”, were a test to the inter-operability of the Moroccan armed forces with the participation of land and air armies […]
In preparing military activities east in Tifarity buffer area in the Sahara, the Polisario and its mentor Algeria have once again flouted UN agreements putting the region on the verge of implosion. Morocco made it clear in a statement that any attempt to change the status of the area east of the security wall constitutes […]
Morocco has strongly condemned the recent provocative actions carried out by the Polisario in the locality of Tifariti, to the east of the Moroccan defense berm, reiterating its unwavering determination to defend its territorial integrity and its national unity throughout the country. “The Kingdom of Morocco considers this provocation a new and serious violation of […]
The EU External Action Service (EEAS) has rejected Polisario’s claim to represent the Sahrawi population and expressed support for a political and mutually acceptable solution to the regional dispute over the Sahara in line with UN resolutions. “The Polisario is not entitled to claim exclusive representativeness of the population of the Sahara,” said the EEAS […]
Algerian-backed Polisario separatists announced the organization on May 20 of military parades and drills in the locality of Tifarity, east of the Sahara buffer zone in a blatant violation of UN agreements. Resolution 2414 has called on Polisario to withdraw immediately from the buffer zone and warned that Polisario’s military incursions are “a violation of […]