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...
UN: Polisario worried by international support for autonomy plan
The Polisario and its mentor, Algeria, have been unsettled over the past two weeks at the diplomatic level by one of the most worrying matters for them, that of the Morocco-proposed autonomy plan in 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...
Peru: The false Sahrawi diplomat who humiliated the Polisario
Peru has placed the Polisario in an unprecedented awkward situation. The Peruvian customs police denied entry to a person who presented herself as the ambassador of the Sahrawi Republic, while she was...
Sahara: Polisario leaders incensed against Ana Palacio
The Polisario leaders are incensed against Ana Palacio, former Spanish Foreign Minister, who has debunked their new strategy to resort to foreign courts to lodge complaints against Morocco to undermine...
Algeria: Confessions of a former minister on the Sahara
Another former Algerian official said out loud what he has long been thinking about the Sahara issue.
Ali Benouari, a former Algerian Junior Minister of the Treasury, felt free to speak out after he left...
Sahara-Panama: The phosphate war will not take place
Panama’s decision to allow a ship carrying Moroccan phosphates to continue its journey to Canada has thwarted the Polisario’s new maneuver, schemed by Algeria, to wage a sea warfare against Morocco,...
Guergarate: What is behind the Polisario’s obstinacy?
If someone attempts to understand the inexplicable stubbornness of the Polisario to continue the showdown at Guergarate and the direct confrontation with the UN, he needs to direct his attention towards...
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...
Polisario, Algeria’s failure in Dakar
The postponement sine die of the meeting of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), initially scheduled for March 23-25 in Dakar, illustrates the new diplomatic showdown between Morocco and Algeria...