Mali, which was under the influence of the Algerian regime in the war against Al Qaeda networks in the Sahel, has just confirmed once again the participation of Polisario fighters as mercenaries in the ranks of the terrorist groups that had Northern Mali under their control before the French military intervention.
Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tieman Coulibaly, confirmed last Friday in New York the participation of armed elements from the Tindouf camps in the activities of the Movement for the uniqueness and jihad in West Africa ( MUJAO) in his country. MUJAO is an offshoot of AQIM, also based in northern Mali.
"Polisario elements from the Tindouf camps have been identified with MUJAO fighters operating in northern Mali," Coulibaly said after talks with UN senior officials.

The Robert Kennedy Foundation’s fierce defense of the Polisario’s separatist theses stirs doubts and even the anger of the Sahrawis who are attached to their homeland, Morocco. Several members of the Sahrawi Diaspora flew to New York earlier this week to denounce, before the United Nations, "the timing, bias and instrumentalization of human rights" by the Robert Kennedy Foundation (RKF ) and Spanish actor Javier Bardem, co-producer of a propaganda documentary film upholding the Polisario separatist thesis. Parliamentarians, civil society activists and students from the Moroccan southern provinces took the floor during a meeting on human rights in Western Sahara to set the record straight. They expressed surprise and indignation at the untruths, false testimonies and excessive exaggeration of facts exposed by the RKF and filmmaker Bardem to an audience that knows almost nothing about the Western Sahara conflict and its genesis. To document his film, Spanish actor Javier Bardem compiled data from Polisario "propagandist websites" and based his allegations on tales concocted by the Algerian military intelligence services and disseminated by the leaders of the separatist movement. A member of the Sahrawi delegation, Mbarka Bouaida, said during the meeting that the Sahara provinces recorded a tremendous economic development over just a few years, contrary to the testimony of "hate" made by Mrs. Kerry Kennedy, against Morocco and its institutions, in an "account of her recent visit to Laayoune." Mrs Kennedy’s statements are just untrue, Mbarka Bouaida said. Mbarka Bouaida also recalled how the Spanish TV channel "Antena 3" had tried to manipulate viewers when it presented images of victims of an assassination crime in Casablanca, as being the photos of victims of alleged repression in Western Sahara. These images had been disseminated worldwide by the Spanish media which are manipulated by the Polisario separatists and generously showered with Algerian petrodollars.

As long as Algerian oil is flowing, there is enough money to pay for pro-Polisario lobbying. No one knows for sure who these lobbyists trying to sell the Polisario’s theses are, but everybody knows that they are so numerous and that they live on the Algerian taxpayers’ money to defend a lost cause. According to the Australian-Bolivian co-directors of "Stolen", a movie on slavery in the Tindouf camps, the Algerian military intelligence services (DRS) pay to the U.S. law firm "Foley Hoag" no less than $1,000,000 per year for anti-Moroccan campaigns in favor of the Polisario. Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw are currently in the United States where the overwhelming documentary television première was due on PBS World TV channel, initially on February 5. The movie has however been postponed due to heavy pressures on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) by the U.S. lobbying firm that campaigns on behalf of the Algerian DRS for the Polisario. PBS is a public television network encompassing more than 350 television channels in the United States. The co-directors of the documentary film underlined, in a statement released in New York, that "strong pressure has been exerted on PBS by some U.S. firms, including Foley Hoag, to remove the movie from the TV programs". “We have been held in Algeria some six years ago and we went through hard times not only to produce the film but also to reveal it to the world,” Violeta and Dan say in their press release.

The verdict of Gdeim Izik's trial was announced late in the night of Saturday, February 16. After several postponements and a week of tense hearing, the verdict of the 24 defendants was made; much to the relief of the victims’ families whose grief may now begin.
The Permanent Military Tribunal of the Royal Armed Forces sentenced 24 defendants to prison terms ranging from 2 years to life imprisonment for gang formation, violence on security forces leading to planned death and mutilation of their corpses. No death penalty has been imposed, contrary to what some observers feared.