At a time when the international community is reviving hopes of finding a political solution to the artificial conflict over the Moroccan Sahara after the appointment of a new personal envoy of the UN Secretary-General, Agence France-Presse (AFP) is once again playing a negative role.

For decades, Algeria and its creation, the Polisario, have been inflating the numbers of the people held in the South-Western Algerian camps while preventing the UN from carrying out a head-count and maintaining a media blackout on human rights there.

Western Sahara with no evidence whatsoever

The opening of diplomatic representations in the Sahara has weakened the argument of the Polisario and Algeria, which claim that no country recognizers Morocco’s sovereignty over the territory.

The documentary is far from being objective. With my respect for freelance journalist and journalist, this documentary is not a report but only a preconceived scenario.

Algeria’s disillusioned diplomacy is apparently resorting to fake news claiming that the SADR separatist entity will be invited to the Africa-EU summit.

Inter City Press founder Mathew Russell Lee is desperately trying to drag ongoing Rif protests into discussion in the United Nations.