The polisario worried by uncertainties of situation in Algeria
For the Polisario, the year 2018 ends in anxiety, as the future is opaque, because of the series of setbacks the separatists suffered at the international level, and also because of the dangerous political...
2018, annus horribilis for the polisario
The year 2018 was an annus horribilis for the Polisario, which suffered unprecedented diplomatic setbacks. The separatists have been disavowed at the level of the European Union institutions, while Algeria...
European Council adopts Morocco-EU fisheries agreement; delivers the coup de grâce to the Polisario
All bets are off for the polisario at the European Union level. The European Council has adopted, on Thursday in Brussels, the fishing agreement with Morocco, just one day after the deal was voted by the...
Polisario suffers new setback in European Parliament
The Polisario has suffered a new setback in the European Parliament, with the vote by the Foreign Affairs Committee, on the new version of the EU-Morocco agriculture and fisheries agreement, which includes...
Polisario Suffers more setbacks in Spain
Times are definitely tough for the Polisario separatist front in Spain. The far-leftist Podemos party has failed to hold a pro-Polisario meeting at the Congress of Deputies, at a time the rest of the Spanish...
Sahara: King Mohammed VI embarrasses Polisario by offering “direct dialogue” with Algeria
King Mohammed VI has embarrassed the leadership of the Polisario, on Tuesday, when he totally ignored the separatist front and announced Morocco’s readiness for “direct and frank dialogue with...
Sahara: Security Council designates Algeria as a party to the conflict
The UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Horst Köhler, can rub his hands. His perspicacity to involve Algeria as a party to the conflict has been validated by the Security Council,...
Sahara: Polisario, Algeria constrained by compromise demanded by UN Security Council
Now that Algeria has agreed to go to Geneva as a stakeholder in the Sahara conflict alongside Morocco, Mauritania and the Polisario, the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy Horst Köhler is only waiting...
Sahara: Algeria embarrassed to respond publicly to Köhler
Since the UN envoy for the Sahara, Horst Köhler, extended his invitation to Algeria to participate in the December dialogue in Geneva, the Algerian leaders feel trapped. The situation is illustrated by...
TICAD: The polisario in his little shoes in Tokyo
The episode of the meeting this week in Tokyo on development in Africa (TICAD) shows how the Polisario has become hemmed in at the diplomatic level, forcing Algeria to resort to every manoeuver imaginable...