The Algerian media which are in disarray and which seek any opportunity to vindicate the Polisario do not hesitate to manipulate information to serve their own ends.
Egyptian actress Sawsan Badr was one of the victims of such manipulations during a short trip to Algiers. She was visiting the North African country along a group of Egyptian actors to attend a professional theatre festival.
On the sidelines of the festival, the Egyptian artistic delegation has been invited to an event supposedly celebrating "World Africa Day" on May 25. However, once on the spot, Sawsan Badr and the other Egyptian actors realized that the event was held rather to serve a "special agenda," as evidenced by the presence of a large delegation of the Polisario Front. So, they left the premises straight away.
The Egyptian actress said that as soon as she arrived at the event, she had been surrounded by Algerian journalists who assailed her with questions on Western Sahara and the Polisario and that she declined to give them any answer or comment on this issue.

Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud, the dissident who had been banned by the Polisario for having publicly supported the Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara, has started a hunger strike. The reason? To exact his right to reunite with his family detained in the Tindouf camps, the Polisario front headquarters in Algeria.
The former head of the Polisario security was expelled from Algerian territory and deported to Mauritania some two and a half year ago.
Under the guarantee of the High Commissioner for Refugees, he then obtained a promise that his case will be speedily settled. But since that time, Mustapha Salma has not seen anything coming.
The promise made by the UNHCR office in Nouakchott to find a solution to the situation was not honored. Since his coming to Mauritania in November 2010, Mustapha Salma’s repeated requests to reunite with his wife and children have remained unanswered. What makes things worse is that he does not have a passport and is therefore deprived of a basic right, the right to free movement.

The tone has turned up a notch in the big cities of the Moroccan Sahara, where separatism advocates at bay became provocative at the call of the Polisario leadership. Utterly baffled by the rejection of the proposal to expand the MINURSO mandate to monitoring of human rights in Western Sahara, the Polisario Front leaders found no other alternative better than pay their pawns and incite them to cause trouble in the disputed territory in order to provoke Moroccan security forces and compel them to commit the irreparable. Since the adoption on April 25 by the Security Council of the UN resolution renewing the MINURSO mandate for one year, the Sahara separatists have been staging demonstrations in Laayoune and Smara claiming the independence of the territory.

Moroccans are used to provocative acts staged by separatists in the southern provinces of the kingdom every time the Sahara issue is at the core of events.
The fact that the Security Council has declined to give to MINURSO a human rights watchdog mandate in Western Sahara could not be swallowed by the Polisario leaders and their Algerian protectors.
To prove at all costs that human rights are violated in the southern provinces of Morocco, the Polisario leadership called to the rescue the independence-seeking hard-liners living in these provinces to stir up trouble and discord in the big cities of the Sahara.
These hard-liners receive instructions directly from the Polisario headquarters in the Tindouf camps and their leaders regularly travel to Algeria to get instructions and money. Once back, they incite mobs to stage provocative and violent demonstrations and then claim they had been victim of repression.