The paradox of the Algerian foreign policy reaches its peak. The unilateral proclamation by the Touaregs of the independence of Azawad, taking half of the Malian territory, has shown the real hegemonic face of the Algerian authority under the commands of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his generals. Even the Algerian press has, in its last editions, pointed out the contradictions of the Algerian diplomacy, underlining at “the time when the Algerian authority blocks any progress in the Algero-Moroccan relations because of the independence of the Western Sahara, it revolts against the decision of the national movement for the liberation of Azawad (MNLA) which has stated the independence of Azawad, after the rejection of its many demands for a referendum”. In their manoeuvres, comments the same sources, the Algerians try to involve “ the stubborn Tunisia in the Western Sahara conflict to isolate or at least put Morocco in a difficult position in the new battle of wills”.

Torture and bad treatments inflicted on the Sahrawi populations by the Polisario is a very common practice in Tindouf camps. The NGO and the human rights associations keep denouncing such practices undergone by innocent civil people under the oppressive silence of the authorities of the country (Algeria) hosting the camps of Sahrawi refugees. The children and women are unfortunately not excluded from these sufferings, on the contrary, they find it difficult to defend themselves against the abuses and atrocities of the Polisario uncontrolled armed militia  making the law in all impunity. To denounce these overtaking, the international economic cooperation (OCAPROCE international) has organized this Tuesday 20 March a panel at the United Nations on the fringe of the 19th session of the UN CDH.

The future of the Sahara with the siège status imposed on the Moroccan Sahrawis sequestrated in Tindouf camps in the Algerian desert was at the centre of discussions during an international symposium organized in Marrakech on the initiative of the the Moroccan Sahara for Development and Solidarity  Association(ASMDS), under the theme “Our youth and the Arab Spring at the service of our territorial unity”. This meeting knew the participation of delegations from many Arab and Western countries. At the opening on Wednesday in Marrakech, of the working session to which have also participated representatives of tribes and Sahrawi diaspora abroad, many participants among whom the president of the ASMDS association, Ahmed Rihani Ould Omar Dlimi, have taken the opportunity to reaffirm the moroccanity of the Sahara and the soundness of the national cause.

The thorny Western Sahara issue which spins out since two decades without solution, stands more and more like a big insurmountable obstacle. All the neighbouring countries are suffering and at the top, the three immediate neighbour countries, that is: Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania. Other countries, in the North bank of the Mediterranean, are complaining about the the difficulties imposed by this conflict on their relationships and commercial exchanges with the Maghreb countries and on the security of their interests and investments in the region. Without talking about precarious and extremely serious life conditions of thousands of Moroccan Sahrawis sequestrated since 36 years, against their will, in Tindouf camps in the South-West of Algeria. It is to denounce this statu quo, that the voices of NGOs and personalities are so numerous to erupt from all sides in the old continent.

The frustration of young Sahrawis living in Tindouf camps, under the Polisario implacable control, pushes more and more young people to rush up to the terrorist groups and the criminal networks scouring the Sahelo-Saharan zone.
The statement was made by the UN Secretary General Personal envoy for the Sahara, Christopher Ross, himself. This observation stands as a warning, especially that it comes just before the new round of informal negotiations about the future of the Western Sahara. A region over which the Polisario, an armed movement financed by Algeria, disputes with Morocco. This meeting expected during the month of February in Manhasset, near New York, should gather, like the 8 previous meetings, the delegations of Morocco, Polisario, Algeria and Mauritania. The warning of Christopher Ross seems to be addressed to all the protagonists because, for him, “the absence of a solution has introduced increasing risks for the concerned parties, the region of the Maghreb and for the (whole) international community”.