In Algeria, Saïd Ben Kamou, the wali of Béchar, claims that he is receiving blows from all sides aimed at thwarting the mega-project of the Gara Djebilet iron mine (Tindouf). The development of this deposit had been the subject of a cooperation agreement between Rabat and Algiers. Is Morocco behind these blows?
Radio Televisión Española (RTVE) will not send reporters to the Fisahara film festival being held this week in the Tindouf camps (Algeria), the channel’s management has announced.
After resigning from the presidency of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), Ahmed Raissouni announced his definitive withdrawal from the organization.
The Moroccan preacher Ahmed Raïssouni has resigned from the presidency of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (UIOM), due to the controversy sparked by his call to march on Tindouf.
Algeria does not forgive Ahmed Raïssouni, president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (UIOM), for having called to march on Tindouf. The Association of Algerian Muslim Scholars has distanced itself from the Moroccan preacher by freezing its activities within the UIOM. It also demands his resignation.
Brahim Ghali’s lawyer, Manuel Ollé, has asked the National High Court to provide him with the two reports from the Spanish intelligence services (CNI) from May and June 2021, in which it is allegedly indicated that the complaints filed against the Sahrawi leader for alleged crimes of torture and kidnapping come from Moroccan intelligence services.
The Moroccan-American military exercise African Lion 2022, which will take place in new areas in the southern provinces, just a stone’s throw from the Tindouf camps and a few kilometers from the eastern borders of Morocco, is causing panic in the eastern neighbor. To the point that the Algerian army has organized military maneuvers in Tindouf, with live ammunition.
Contrary to the rumors spread by Algeria and the Polisario, the 2022 edition of the joint Moroccan-American military exercise African Lion will indeed take place in new areas in the southern provinces, just a stone’s throw from the Tindouf camps and a few kilometers from the eastern borders of Morocco.
Spain continues to play appeasement with Morocco. Journalists from the Spanish public channel TVE have been barred from participating in a professional trip to the Tindouf camps, during which their colleagues from other media will have to interview the leader of the Polisario, Brahim Ghali , at the origin of the recent diplomatic crisis between the kingdom and its northern neighbor.
The municipal council of Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) took place under police protection last week. The reason is that tempers flared during a deliberation on the financing of a solidarity project for Sahrawi children in Tindouf.
Sid Ahmed Al Batal, a founding member of the Polisario Front and Minister of Equipment of the "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)", died on Wednesday at the age of 69 from the coronavirus.
Brahim Ghali , the Polisario leader currently hospitalized in Logroño, should face Spanish justice. Madrid investigating judge Santiago Pedraz Gomez would have issued a summons for his hearing on May 5, as well as that of other influential members of the separatist movement, following a complaint filed by one of their dissidents for "kidnapping, arbitrary detention and torture" in the Tindouf prisons.