“Child Soldiers”, the Polisario’s other scandal
After the resounding scandal of humanitarian aid misappropriation, the Polisario Front leaders got hit with a new more serious scandal as it concerns the recruitment of children by the Sahrawi army.
According...
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,...
Tindouf: Sheikhs’ meeting throws Polisario into turmoil
According to informed sources in Tindouf, the Polisario leadership has been thrown into turmoil since the announcement of the meeting of several Tindouf-based heads of tribes and Sahrawi dignitaries, who...
Polisario: why the DRS co-opts Taleb Omar
Senior officers of the Algerian military intelligence services (DRS) have made their decision. Abdelkader Taleb Omar, the so-called Premier of the Sahrawi republic, will take over the ailing Mohamed Abdelaziz,...
Western Sahara: The Guergarate border crossing point keeps busy
The Guergarate border crossing point at the farthest south of the Moroccan Sahara has been very busy lately.
After the border guards intercepted a Polisario activist with an Algerian passport, a senior...
Polisario: Abdelaziz at the center of an array of criticism
Since the debacle suffered by the Polisario Front and its mentor, Algeria, at the UN Security Council end of April, the separatist front leader Mohamed Abdelaziz has been at the center of an array of criticism...
MINURSO: Kim Buldoc irritated by the Polisario
Relations between the Polisario Front and the UN mission in Western Sahara “MINURSO” have been strained, not to say confrontational, over the past weeks because of recent incidents targeting...
Western Sahara: Algeria suffers more setbacks
An informed source in Algiers revealed that Algerian officials were strongly shaken by the position of Saudi Arabia, which reiterated its support for Morocco in the Western Sahara issue, during the talks...
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...
Western Sahara: 2015, a gloomy year for the Polisario
The year 2015 seems to have started badly for the Polisario Front leader Mohamed Abdelaziz and his cronies, both in the Tindouf camps and on the international arena.
The situation in the Tindouf camps...
