Malainin Lakhal: “The Moroccan occupation will never erase history nor Sahrawi sovereignty over Western Sahara”

Algiers (Algeria) 29 September 2025 (SPS) – The Deputy Permanent Representative of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to the African Union and Sahrawi writer, Malainin Lakhal, stated to the magazine of the Foundation for the Promotion of Rights,...

EU scrambles to save Morocco deal with controversial Western Sahara clause

The Commission has proposed amending its trade deal with Morocco to comply with an EU court ruling on the disputed territory of Western Sahara, according to a document obtained by Euractiv. Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony mostly occupied...

Separatist Provocation: Polisario Flag in Melilla Strikes at Morocco’s Heart

Marrakech – Few acts could carry greater symbolic weight than the display of a Polisario/ self-styled Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) flag in the Spanish-administered city of Melilla, a city already entangled in the crosscurrents of...

EU silent on how it obtained Saharawi support for Moroccan trade deal

The European Commission is unclear on how it obtained the consent of the Saharawi people in a new trade agreement with Morocco which covers the occupied territories of the Western Sahara. On Thursday (2 October), officials in Brussels announced...

Cuba Reaffirms Support for Western Sahara’s Self-Determination at UN

Sahrawi people. X/ @PamphletsMaoist September 26, 2025 Hour: 9:38 am On Thursday, Cuba reiterated its support for the cause of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) during a meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly’s...

Western Sahara’s Polisario Movement: Manufacturing a Threat to Global Security?

Executive Summary: Founded in 1973, the Polisario Front remains a UN-recognized secular liberation movement seeking independence from Moroccan rule. U.S. legislators are considering labeling the Sahrawi independence movement a terrorist group,...

Morocco's crimes in Western Sahara fit definition of genocide

Madrid, 18 September 2025 (SPS) - Morocco has committed crimes in Western Sahara that fit the definition of genocide, asserts Spanish writer and journalist Victoria Garcia Corera, recalling that in 2015 a Spanish magistrate clearly described the...

In UN Human Rights Council: NGO accuses Morocco of systematic arbitrary detentions in Western Sahara and calls for UN’s action

Geneva (UN Human Rights Council) 18 September 2025 (SPS)– The Al-Basher Foundation for Development, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status with the United Nations, sounded the alarm over what it describes as the “ongoing...

U.N. Warns of Hunger Among Western Sahara Refugees

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: United Nations agencies struggle to mobilize resources for Sahrawi refugees in Algeria, Malawians await the results of a recent presidential election, and Egypt reportedly...

Western Sahara: South Africa Still Not Over Zumba’s Visit, Support for Morocco

Rabat – South Africa’s government continues to grumble over former President Jacob Zuma’s remarkable visit to Morocco, where he announced support for Morocco’s Autonomy Plan for the Western Sahara dispute. Ronald Lamola, South Africa’s Minister of...

Prime Minister calls for mobilizing all efforts to elevate level of media discourse and counter hostile propaganda

Shaheed El Hafed, September 23, 2025 (SPS) - Member of the National Secretariat, Prime Minister, Mr. Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun, called today, Tuesday, at the headquarters of the National Television, for mobilizing all energies and exerting more...

Polisario’s Armed Kidnappings of Mauritanian Miners Expose Separatist Gang’s Face

Marrakech – The mask has fallen. The Polisario Front has once again revealed itself as nothing more than an outlaw militia masquerading as a political movement. Armed elements of the separatist group stormed the gold-mining zone of El Malhate on...

Polisario gunmen reportedly kidnap Mauritanian miners near border

Armed members of the Polisario Front allegedly stormed a miners’ camp in northern Mauritania on Wednesday, abducting several workers and seizing a vehicle, according to local Hespress AR sources. The incident took place in the “Malhat” area,...

National Secretariat postpones 17th Congress of Polisario Front within legal framework

Shaheed El-Hafed, September 22, 2025 (SPS) - The National Secretariat has decided to postpone the convening of the 17th Congress of the Polisario Front, in accordance with the legal timeframe stipulated in Article 44 of the Polisario Front's Basic...

Western Sahara: At a time of decision, the UN is called upon to integrate the Sahrawi Movement for Peace as a central player

International consensus on Moroccan autonomy The credibility of the UN put to the test The Sahrawi Movement for Peace: a new Sahrawi legitimacy A moment of truth As pressure mounts on the UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy, Staffan de Mistura,...

Colonialism, post-colonialism and Western Sahara: rebuilding Africa's fractured geographies

Introduction: beyond colonial cartographies The coloniality of power and the fragmentation of the Sahara Sovereignty as a historical relationship, not a colonial invention The poetics of resistance: liberation as narrative Feminist and ecological...

Post-Coloniality and Western Sahara: Stitching Back Together Africa’s Broken Geographies

The incompleteness of decolonization is not only a matter of borders, flags, and treaties. It is also, and above all, a matter of imagination: who tells the story, who defines belonging, and who controls the symbolic cartographies of space. As the...

Riots: Algerian Analyst Oualid Kebir Accuses Algeria of Plotting Against Morocco

Rabat – Algerian political analyst Oualid Kebir has accused Algeria’s regime of orchestrating “vile schemes” targeting Morocco’s security and stability. Kebir, who lives in Morocco, said that there is a “proven involvement’ of Algeria’s regime...

Zuma’s Morocco Visit Reshapes South African Political Terrain on Western Sahara

Marrakech – A comprehensive policy paper published earlier this month reveals how former South African President Jacob Zuma’s July visit to Morocco has significantly impacted South Africa’s political landscape. The research, conducted by Driss...

Exclusive: Sahrawi Movement Says Polisario’s Struggle Is Irrelevant, Doomed to Fail

Marrakech – For half a century, the Polisario Front has claimed to be the “sole and legitimate representative” of the Sahrawis, an exclusivity imposed under Algeria’s patronage and maintained by force rather than democratic consent. This monopoly...