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.
The European Parliament and the European Commission were questioned about the case of the assassination, last October, of two young people from the Tindouf camps, by the Algerian army.
The European Union (EU) reiterated, Friday before the 4th Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, its call for the census by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) of the population of the Tindouf camps, in Algeria, as repeatedly requested by the Security Council.
During the 71st session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Program, Algeria rejected Morocco’s calls for a population census in the Tindouf camps.
Morocco reiterated its deep concern regarding the suffering inflicted on thousands of Sahraouis held against their will by the Polisario militias in southwestern Algeria amid the pandemic outbreak.
The embezzlement of humanitarian aid is endemic among the corrupt Polisario and Algerian officials, despite international outcry by the EU and humanitarian NGOS. This time, aid worth $12 million was derailed to enrich merciless separatist officials in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps.
Member of the European Parliament Olivier Chastel has raised the issue of the ongoing embezzlement by the Polisario and Algeria of EU humanitarian aid sent annually to the Sahrawis sequestered in the Tindouf camps.
Merchants in the Tindouf camps observed, Tuesday, a sit-in in front of the headquarters of the Front’s general secretariat in the Rabouni camp to protest against the closure of borders imposed by the Algerian authorities.
The Algerian regime made a volt-face concerning the coronavirus outbreak ending weeks of denial and asking forurgent help to contain the virus in the Polisario-run camps.
The Tindouf camps are in turmoil despite the coronavirus induced confinement. This time, it was the tradesmen operating inside these camps who took to the streets, accusing the Polisario leaders of having “methodically killed their subsistence activity”.
The Italian government must investigate the fate of humanitarian aid to the Tindouf camps in Algeria, said international policy expert Marco Iaconetti.
A committee set up by the Polisario Front for the fight against the coronavirus announced on Tuesday that four confirmed coronavirus cases were recorded in the Tindouf camps.
European law expert and lawyer at the Brussels bar, Stéphane Rodrigues, has said that the embezzlement of humanitarian aid sent to the populations held in the Tindouf camps continues.
After the scandal of the diversion of humanitarian aid by polisario and Algeria currently being examined by the European Parliament, a new matter has been brought to the attention of the European Commission. It concerns the extrajudicial executions in the Tindouf camps.
The matter of the diversion of humanitarian aid intended for the populations held against their will in the Tindouf camps on Algerian territory was officially referred to the European Parliament's Committee on Development (DEVE) on Thursday.
Despite the European Commission's promises to end the diversion of humanitarian aid sent to the Tindouf camps in Algeria, new evidence has emerged to confirm that this large-scale mismanagement continues even in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Indian newspaper "The Times of India" has slammed the blackout imposed by polisario and Algeria on the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the Tindouf camps.
Having a large military arsenal and at the same time begging for food aid is an equation that a member of the European parliament tried to solve by appealing to the common sense of the leaders of the European Union (EU).
President of the African Institute for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation, Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Gain, has highlighted Algeria’s flagrant, imprescriptible responsibility in the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara in the analysis he developed in the Sahara Debate, a citizen-run show...
The polisario diverts and resells the international humanitarian aid destined to the populations held against their will in the Tindouf camps, ignoring the current coronavirus health crisis.
A new aid embezzlement scandal emerged in the Tindouf camps after the Polisairo-administered Red Crescent was found guilty of sending aid to stores run by the trade division of the militia to be sold instead of being distributed for free to the targeted vulnerable civilians.