Two weeks ago I promised readers that in this second installment on Western Sahara I would lay out the basic outline and next steps of what I think needs to be done now to break the logjam on this issue and move towards a solution.
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It has been nearly a year now since the surprise resignation of Hans Kohler as the United Nations Personal Envoy for Western Sahara.
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The Sahara is an "integral part of the Moroccan territory," stresses the "Laayoune Declaration" adopted by the 3rd Morocco-Pacific Island States forum, which ended Friday.
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Switzerland denied having in its territories a representation of the Polisario, reducing the Algerian-backed group to its status of a separatist militia serving its paymasters’ regional agenda.
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The Polisario is a geopolitical scam entity lacking all statehood attributes including historical and demographic aspects, Brazilian O Globo media outlet said.
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The Central African Republic on Thursday morning inaugurated a consulate general in the southern city of Laayoune.
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The Democratic Republic of Sao Tomé and Principe inaugurated on Thursday a consulate general in the southern city of Laayoune.
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The House of Representatives (lower house) on Wednesday unanimously adopted two bills aimed at establishing the Kingdom's legal authority over its entire maritime domain.
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A meeting of foreign ministers from Morocco and twelve Pacific countries will be held on February 22 in Laayoune, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad Nasser Bourita announced on Friday.
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Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs Mohcine Jazouli welcomed the position of Japan on the Kingdom's territorial integrity.
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Last week, my colleague Ed Gabriel wrote a blog commending the resolve of King Mohammed VI to not cave into alleged efforts, as reported in several press accounts, by Secretary of State Pompeo to persuade Morocco to bend its policy on Israel and Palestine to favor better prospects for Israeli...
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Two laws asserting Morocco’s sovereignty on all its territorial waters on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, including off the Sahara, will soon be adopted by Moroccan MPs.
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The Union of the Comoros opened Wednesday a consulate general in the southern city of Laayoune.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu on Thursday renewed his country’s support for Morocco’s territorial integrity.
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On Sunday, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced his resignation. The latter could be a source of concern for the Polisario, which might be losing one of its important allies in Latin America.
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«It is time to solve the Sahara issue», Mauritanian Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh told reporters on Thursday.
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The Indonesian government has renewed its firm backing to the efforts engaged by the United Nations for reaching an enduring political solution to the Sahara issue.
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The Cuban President has totally overlooked the Algeria-backed Polisario and its self-proclaimed Sahrawi Republic SADR, in his address before the XVIII Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, heralding a change of position regarding the artificial Sahara conflict.
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Maintaining the Sahara issue on the decolonization agenda of the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly is an anomaly that runs against the UN charter and the mandate of the Security Council.
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Former Secretary General of Algeria’s all-powerful FLN party, Amaar Saadani, voiced the discontent within the Algerian political class regarding the blind support and lavish spending on the separatist Polisario front.
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Moroccan university professor and writer Bachir Edkhil has affirmed that the option of a referendum in the Sahara has become obsolete and incompatible with the reality of the region.