Legislative Polls in Morocco: The Inside Story of Brahim Ghali’s Message to Ban Ki-moon
The campaign for the legislative elections in Morocco is in full swing, but for the separatist Polisario front, it is a source of additional hassle.
The front’s leader Brahim Ghali fears above all a...
Stinging Setback for Algeria, Polisario at UN Security Council
The resolution adopted on Friday by the UN Security Council on the Sahara rings like a real fiasco for Algerian rulers.
They were expecting reprisals against Morocco following its showdown with the UN...
Sahara: Ban Ki-Moon Turns Moroccans against him
The determined reaction of Morocco, with the demonstration staged by more than three million people in Rabat, on Sunday March 13, to protest against Ban Ki-Moon, constituted a strong signal that was felt...
Sahara: Anger against Ban Ki-Moon in New York
Ban Ki-Moon will remember for a long time his tour in the Maghreb region. The UN Secretary General has actually irked several members of the Security Council because he let the Polisario and Algeria...
Polisario: Jockeying on the Eve of Ban Ki-Moon’s Visit
Algeria and its protégé, the Polisario, are trying to exert pressure on Ban Ki-Moon regarding the Western Sahara issue, as they aimed at the United Nations just few days before the visit of the UN Secretary...
Sahara-UN: Ban Ki-moon Expected Early March in the Region
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will undertake a tour in the Arab Maghreb region early next March.
The North African tour, the first of its kind by the UN Secretary General, was scheduled...
Sahara: What if Ban Ki-Moon exacts lifting the blockade on Tindouf camps?
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is expected in September or early October in Western Sahara and in the Tindouf camps (southwestern Algeria) on what will be his first official visit to the region,...
UN-Western Sahara: Kerry Kennedy flies off the handle
The President of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, Kerry Kennedy, could not hide her anger on the eve of the adoption by the Security Council of the UN Secretary General’s annual...
UN-Western Sahara: Rabat exacts that AU is kept away from the case
Morocco exacts that the African Union which has repeatedly demonstrated its bias in the Western Sahara territorial conflict is kept away from the issue that is currently handled by the UN.
Morocco is firmly...
Algeria very disappointed by warming of Paris-Rabat relations
Algerian and Polisario leaders felt frustrated at the announcement of the normalization of relations between France and Morocco, at a time these leaders were hoping to see French-Moroccan relations deteriorate,...