Sahara: Why Algeria is pushing the Polisario to breaking point
The deterioration of the situation in the Sahara, where Morocco threatens to crack down on the incursions of the Polisario in the buffer zone, actually reflects a tension with Algeria, whose generals push...
Polisario on the defensive before UN Security Council meeting
Few weeks before the presentation of the report of the UN Secretary-General to the Security Council on the Sahara issue, the Algeria-backed Polisario is on the defensive, especially that it has just suffered...
Polisario: What Algeria gains by naming Taleb Omar in Algiers
By forcing the Polisario leader Brahim Ghali to appoint Abdelkader Taleb Omar as ambassador in Algiers, the Algerian regime has avoided a confrontation with unpredictable consequences between the ousted...
Polisario loses battle over holding of Crans Montana Forum in Dakhla
The Polisario is striving to prevent the holding in Dakhla of the Crans Montana Forum, an annual high mass to kick off Thursday.
Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Algeria-backed front, has even implored...
Bourita-Kohler Meeting: Polisario Shaken by Morocco’s Firmness
According to well-informed sources in Tindouf, the Polisario leaders have been taken aback by the diplomatic firmness adopted by Morocco, which dispatched a delegation, not to Berlin but to Lisbon, for...
Fisheries: The strong reaction of the EU, Morocco raises doubts of Polisario, Algeria
Immediately after the publication of the judgment of the European Court of Justice stating that the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement was “inapplicable” to the Sahara, Brussels and Rabat clearly...
Algeria seeks at all costs to put the Polisario back in the saddle
The Algerian official news agency, APS, has deliberately distorted remarks made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about the Sahara. By doing so, the agency has not only made an ethical blunder,...
Sahara: Horst Köhler bogged down in nebulous consultations
The bumpy start of the mission of the UN Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Horst Köhler, raises more and more fears about the fate of the negotiations process, which is likely to get bogged down even before...
Polisario: The underside of Mohamed Akaik’s appointment
A new episode of the Algerian Generals’ stranglehold on the Polisario started with the appointment of Mohamed Akaik as “prime minister” of the pseudo Sahara republic (SADR), in replacement...
UN-Sahara: Why the Polisario leader will not visit Berlin
Will Horst Köhler intervene so that the Polisario leader has a safe-conduct allowing him to go to Berlin without being caught in Europe as he is wanted by the Spanish justice for serious crimes of torture...
