The UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy for the Sahara, Horst Köhler, is starting this Saturday (June 23) a ten-day tour of North Africa, in a bid to revive talks to settle the Sahara issue. “I can…
After a brief respite following the withdrawal of the Polisario Front armed militia from the Guerguerate buffer zone, tension rose again in the region on Sunday (May 20). This time, the Polisario has chosen the…
The Polisario and its Algerian sponsors have been disappointed by the new annual report on the Sahara, handed Wednesday to the Security Council members by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. In his report, Guterres…
Morocco announced Sunday (Feb.26) the withdrawal of its troops from the buffer zone of Guerguarat, separating the Moroccan Sahara from Mauritania, and avoided thus falling in the trap set by Algeria, that of an armed…
The year 2017 heralds the Western Sahara issue will take a different course both at the level of the UN, as Portuguese Antonio Guterres will be at the helm as of January, and at regional…
The UN General Assembly endorsed on Thursday the Portuguese Antonio Guterres as the new UN Secretary General who will succeed Ban Ki-moon. Antonio Guterres, who had been picked by the Security Council, will take up…