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Sahrawi Rights activist on hunger strike taken to hospital

Nouakchott - June 19, 2013 (MAP) Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud, a Sahrawi rights activist who has been on hunger strike since last May 20 in front of the High commissioner for refugees office in Nouakchott, was urgently taken on Tuesday night to hospital after his health deteriorated. Mustapha Salma passed out after severe low blood pressure resulting from his hunger strike. The activist who wanted to vi ...

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The Sahara issue: the need to inform and engage the local population

By Rachid Khouya Morocco World News Smara, Morocco, June 11, 2013 The organization of a national conference in Smara last weekend about the tools and strategies of boosting regionalism was an opportunity for the youth of the region to meet a group of Moroccan scholars and university professors to shed light upon the Moroccan project of autonomy in the Sahara. Many people felt there was a lack of information ...

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Large Autonomy : a substantial solution to the Sahara issue

 By Said Temsamani Morocco World News Washington, June 5, 2013 Since 1976, the Western Sahara is experiencing a conflict between the Sahrawi independence movement Polisario Front and Morocco, which claims sovereignty over the entire territory. It is no secret that Algeria, which supports and arms the Polisario Front has been seeking an opening on the Atlantic Ocean. Recently while all eyes were on Mali cris ...

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Turkey doesn’t and will never support “Polisario front”: Erdogan

By Larbi Arbaoui Morocco World News Taroudant, Morocco, June 3, 2013 The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his country's position on the Sahara issue Monday on a visit to Morocco.  In a press conference held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rabat, with the Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “Turkey does not recognize the ...

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Mustapha Salma calls on the UN to stop “encouraging Polisario’ human rights abuses”

By Youssef Sourgo Morocco World News Casablanca, May 31, 2013 In an interview with the Moroccan channel Medi1 TV on Wednesday, Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud, called on the United Nations and the international community to stop “encouraging Polisario’s human rights abuses against dissenting voices in the Tindouf camps. “I have been on a hunger strike for ten days now,” Mustapha Mouloud told Moroccan chann ...

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Mustapha Salma on hunger strike in protest against the Polisario and the UNHCR

By Youssef El Kaidi Morocco World News Fez, May 20, 2013 The Sahraoui activist Mustapha Weld Sidi Mouloud who is exiled from Tindouf Camps in Algeria for two years and a half so far in Mauritania declared that he will enter in an open hunger strike in front of the delegation of the High Commission for Refugee Aid in Nouakchott starting from May 20th, until the settlement of his status. Mustapha Salma said i ...

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UN to fire MINURSO’s member who sided with the Polisario

Morocco World News New York, May 19, 2013 The United Nations has proceeded to fire the Egyptian member of the MINURSO who appeared in a video last April expressing his support to the Polisario. “Sahara is theirs and they have to exploit any means at their disposal to prove the righteousness of their position,” the Egyptian officer said in the video. This position has to be exploited, this territory is your ...

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Unfortunate and Disturbing Report: Weddady Has Some Explaining to Do

By Mohamed El Mokhtar Sidi Haiba Washington, May 13, 2013 Following the recent investigative report by Max Blumenthal, a journalist affiliated with the pro-Palestinian online site Electronic Intifada, a seemingly disturbing account of a list of sponsors and sources of funding of two organizations (The American Islamic Congress and Free Arabs) came to light in rather great, and quite disturbing, detail. The ...

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Assassination of a Polisario leader for his opposing political views on the Sahara

By Youssef Elkaidi Morocco World News Fez, May 4, 2013 Anyone who opposes the mainstream political views of the Polisario leader Mohammed Abdelaziz Al-Morakchy, who has been in power since the early years of foundation of the separatist movement in 1973 and took hold of the Sahraouis in Tindouf camps since 1976, can expect a strong response. The last victim of the right to self-determination that the Polisa ...

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