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...
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...
Guerguerat: The Polisario angers Gueterres
Cornered by successive diplomatic setbacks, the Polisario is ready to do anything to avoid disappearing from the screens. Prompted by their sponsor, Algeria, the separatists even tried to prohibit the...
Algeria-Sahara: Messahel and the Algerian regime’s disarray
The incredible situation in which the Algerian Foreign Minister got entangled reveals the disarray of the Algerian regime on two fronts: its own economic and diplomatic failures being exposed by Morocco’s...
Sahara: Polisario evacuates its opponents from Tindouf before Köhler arrives
The visit Wednesday in the Tindouf camps of Horst Köhler, the new Personal Envoy of the UNSG for the Sahara, is worrying the Polisario leaders, who hastened to transfer far away from the camps all the...
Sahara: Mission impossible for Horst Kohler?
Horst Kohler, the new Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara, is about to begin his mediation with a forthcoming visit to the Maghreb. Yet, questions remain as to his ability to convince...
Sahara-UN: Polisario’s back against the wall
The Polisario finds itself cornered after the warning shot of the Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres.
Guterres actually asked the Security Council to exact that the separatist front withdraws completely...