Following the Malian Prime Minister's accusatory speech at the UN about Algeria, Morocco's permanent representative to the UN supported Bamako's claims, accusing Algiers of playing a dubious role in the Sahel and Sahara.
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French left-wing political party France Insoumise (LFI) MEP Rima Hassan has commented on relations between Rabat and Tel Aviv, established on December 10, 2020. «One wonders what the King of Morocco is waiting for to break off diplomatic relations (...)
Algerian media and political organizations accused Morocco of instigating the riots during a football match in Algiers, where a fan lost his life. Meanwhile, Tunisia's Football Federation lodged a complaint with CAF regarding the violence their team (...)
Since its creation on September 17, 2023, in Brussels, the leaders of the «Rifian nationalist party» have been constantly reaching out to the Polisario to establish cooperation between the two entities. In the Tindouf camps, these calls are greeted (...)
Morocco succeeded in excluding the Polisario from the African Chess Confederation at a CAE meeting held on the sidelines of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) congress, held from September 20 to 22 in Budapest, Hungary, the president of the (...)
Algeria appears to be softening its stance on Israel and is seeking to strengthen its ties with the United States. In a surprising move, Algiers has contracted the BGR Group, a firm with alleged ties to Israel, to represent its interests in the (...)
Dozens of Sahrawi traders and their trucks staged a sit-in in front of the Polisario headquarters in the Rabouni camp on Wednesday, September 18.
They were protesting against the separatist movement's refusal to issue them with permits to leave the (...)
The border dispute between Morocco and Algeria began shortly after Algeria's independence, with Morocco demanding that Algeria honor an agreement to negotiate the colonial-era borders. However, Algeria's President Ben Bella rejected negotiations, (...)
On Monday morning, September 16, Algerian authorities transferred a new group of missing and detained Moroccan migrants to Morocco through the Zouj Beghal border post, according to the Moroccan Association for the Assistance of Migrants in Difficult (...)
On Saturday, September 14, the Rif nationalist party organized a demonstration in Brussels to protest against «the European Union's support for the Moroccan occupation of the Rif». However, the expected turnout did not materialize, with a Polisario (...)
Mauritania declined an invitation from the Polisario to a conference titled «From occupation to self-determination: a comparison between Western Sahara and Palestine», reveals a media outlet in Nouakchott. The meeting, organized on September 10 in (...)
Following early parliamentary elections and nearly two months of waiting, the French President has appointed a new Prime Minister to succeed Gabriel Attal. After extensive negotiations with key political figures, Emmanuel Macron chose Michel (...)
Beijing has excluded the Polisario Front from the China-Africa summit, which opened on Tuesday, September 3, with a meeting of foreign ministers.
In August, Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf met with the Chinese ambassador in Algiers to advocate (...)
The Indonesian government did not invite the Polisario to the 2nd edition of the Indonesia-Africa Forum, to held in Bali on September 2 and 3. An exclusion that went unnoticed in Algiers and in the Tindouf camps.
Nevertheless, the President of the (...)
Wednesday, incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's election campaign made a stopover in the southern wilaya of Djanet. Given the region's proximity to Algeria's neighbors, Tebboune addressed this topic in his speech delivered to a closed room.
He (...)
In his book «Memoirs of a Diplomat on Moroccan-Mauritanian Relations», Moroccan ambassador Kacem Zhiri sheds light on a chapter in the history of Moroccan support for the Algerian National Liberation Front in Africa. This chapter, part of the (...)
The Polisario Front participated in the second day of the preparatory meeting for the Japan-Africa summit held in Tokyo on Saturday. The Front's delegation was led by its «Minister of Foreign Affairs», Mohamed Sidati. Notably, the delegation's (...)
The Moroccan delegation participating in a preparatory meeting for the Japan-Africa summit in Tokyo thwarted an Algerian maneuver aimed at imposing the Polisario. This act violated the sovereignty of the host country, which had not invited the (...)
With the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) scheduled for September 5 and 6 in Beijing, Algeria has begun lobbying Chinese officials for the inclusion of the Polisario Front.
On Thursday, the Algerian Foreign Minister met with the Chinese (...)
On Thursday, August 22, Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf met with U.S. Ambassador Elizabeth Moore Aubin in Algiers. Officially, the Sahara issue was not on the agenda, although both parties mentioned regional security in their respective (...)
After four days of silence, the Polisario finally reacted on Saturday to the opening of the Chadian consulate in Dakhla. In a press release, the Front denounced «a unilateral measure taken by the Chadian government» and called it «an illegal (...)
In the early 1980s, the Polisario Front's greatest fear was that Algeria might abandon it. Algeria, had come to believe that the Sahara conflict could not be resolved militarily and began to focus on diplomatic solutions to the regional dispute.
In (...)
At the initiative of the Sierra Leonean presidency, the UN Security Council hosted a debate last night in New York titled «Righting the historic wrong and strengthening Africa's effective representation on the United Nations Security (...)
Algeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Attaf, received his Polisario «counterpart», Mohamed Sidati, in Algiers on Sunday, August 11. «The meeting was devoted to examining and discussing developments on the issue of decolonization in Western (...)
Wreck-hunters have discovered a heavily armed 17th-century Barbary pirate ship off Morocco, the first of its kind found near the Barbary coast. Believed to have been on a mission to capture and enslave people, the ship's discovery speaks volumes (...)