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Moroccan Sahara : a significant socio-economic expansion |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Monday, 18 January 2010 |
 In fact, according to a recent report made by an international expert from the UNDP, achieved in 2008, based on the objective and verifiable data, with supporting figures which were not made available to the public, it is shown that the different indicators of human development, adopted by the international organizations, such as education for children, health, drinkable water, electricity, basic infrastructure or transports are clearly higher than the national average, with an important economic well-being ratio and life conditions level higher than the average recorded in Morocco, but also in the Arab countries which do not have oil. We have to recall back that in 1975, date when Morocco recovered its territory in the South, the rate of poverty of the semi-nomad Sahrawi was so alarming. The majority of the populations, registered in the census at that time, lived under the threshold of poverty and ignorance, illiteracy and the lack of medical care was widespread while the basic infrastructure almost non-existent and even when they existed, they were deteriorating and ineffective . Since then, the public authorities have really made a move on in order to make up for the accumulated delay during the Spanish colonization and invert the tendency. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 February 2010 )
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Ultimatum of Khat Achahid to Polisario about starting discussions |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Monday, 04 January 2010 |
 In a declaration with which the Qatar tv channel “al Jazeera” started all its news, the representative of the Khatt Achahid movement (the Martyr Line ), Mahjoub Salek, has declared that “the Polisario Front leaders have till 12 October to open a constructive dialogue which should determine what the populations living in the camps really want in “a democratic and free way”, otherwise the Line of the Martyr would have to negotiate directly with Morocco, under the UN auspices. While Morocco and the Polisario Front should theoretically meet each others soon for a second round of informal discussions in Austria, the declarations of Mahjoub Salek, one of the Polisario founders, came to change in part the state of affairs. Thinking that the present leadership is not less than an organization of “traders”, the leader of khatt achahid maintained that his movement would assume its “historical responsibility” if the Polisario Front refuses to start a constructive dialogue , and would undertake “direct negotiations with the Kingdom of Morocco” in order to help the Sahrawi populations living in Tindouf to get out of this disastrous situation which is theirs since 35 years. The message, it seems, is addressed to two parties, since Salek has insisted on the “free” aspect which should characterize the dialogue between his organization and the Polisario, making thus allusion to the role played by Algeria in maintaining the status quo. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 04 January 2010 )
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The Catalan Popular Party supports the Moroccan autonomy proposal for the Sahara |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Thursday, 24 December 2009 |
 At the end of a rich and fruitful meeting between the President of the National Rally of Independents (RNI), Mustapha Mansouri and the President of the Catalan Popular Party (CPP), Alicia Sanchez Camacho, the latter has declared that the Moroccan initiative concerning the Western Sahara autonomy shall be taken into consideration and serve as a negotiation basis, as it offers a serious and credible prospect to the solution of the Western Sahara conflict. “we have to find, she specified, an equilibrium during the search process for a solution to the Sahara issue and the Moroccan autonomy proposal shall be taken into account to reach a fair and peaceful solution to this issue”. Thus, the Catalan Popular Party joins the advanced position of Morocco, during the negotiations process of Manhasset in the USA consisting of an ambitious and coherent autonomy plan, giving to the elected local authority and to the related elected institutions wide prerogatives in all the fields that fall within their competences and throughout the territory. Legal instruments and institutional devices in mediation and arbitration have been set forth in cases of interests’ conflict and legal or statutory interpretation among regional institutions and national institutions. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 28 December 2009 )
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Algeria’s cold strategy in the Maghreb |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Monday, 14 December 2009 |
 The recent news around the Moroccan Sahara have taken a shape that calls any observer. The abounding part of the news, their intersecting as well as their contradictory interpretation incline to a necessary vigilance, for fear of slips-ups. The Aminatou Haidar issue, plotted by the Algerian government and the Polisario is like a rude machinery with many goals: to denigrate Morocco at a moment where the Advanced Status with the European Union is on the last straight line; to poison the Moroccan- Spanish relations by spreading malicious gossips and disinformation; finally to torpedo the UN negotiation process in the Sahara. The chosen timing is not fortuitous. Worried about the wide positive echoes that the autonomy plan proposed by Morocco in April 2007 continues to collect, determined also to fight it since the first one, the Algerian government thus starts crossfire. It uses the human rights issue at all levels in order to divert the international opinion from the implementation of a negotiated solution, focusing it on the other hand on fabricated problems. By encouraging a group of the Polisario guerilla sympathizers, domiciliated in Laayoune, to protest, it has succeeded to make of them human rights protesters becoming victims of human rights violations, while they have deliberately and unwisely infringed the law. At the 4th UN Committee, the Algerian delegate and his sidekicks have not stopped making pressure, before and during votes, on the other present delegates to falsify resolutions, and to divert any text project in line with the recommendations of the Security Council about the Sahara. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 16 December 2009 )
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Morocco insures the stability, security and development conditions in the Southern provinces |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Monday, 07 December 2009 |
 During the ministerial visit to Dakhla and within Oued Eddahab-Lagouira region, on October 27th, 2009, the Minister of the Interior Chakib Benmoussa has reaffirmed the importance that these provinces have in the national pattern of the sustainable development. In fact, the stability and development in the Southern provinces constitute one of the main priorities of Morocco, taking into consideration the geographic, strategic and security imperatives, as well as the economic and social stakes. Consequently, the ministerial visit aimed at enquiring in situ about the general political situation of the region and about the inhabitants’ life conditions and their economic, social and cultural expectations. A meeting with MPs and the local elected representatives had taken place in order to discuss loudly the problems of the region and the specific expectations of its inhabitants. Problems linked to education, health, housing and work. The heads of the tribes (Shiouks) have insisted on reminding of their indefectible attachment to the Alaoui throne and their love for their motherland. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 07 December 2009 )
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 |
 After having many times expelled journalists as well as former prisoners of the Polisario Front from Algiers airport, a curious “parallelism of forms” has been set up by the Algerian State while convincing a pro-Prolisario activist residing in Morocco to refuse to comply with the obligatory procedures during her arrival to the International Hassan 1st airport in Laayoune. In fact, Aminatou Haïdar, being since yesterday in the international area within the airport, has refused to tell her nationality as well as her country of destination, to the officer in charge of controlling passports and applying related procedures. According to the international law in force, the representatives of the Moroccan State have thus refused Mrs Haïdar ‘s entry to a territory, which according to her ...does not exist. The pro-polisario activist, who has provoked many times the Moroccan authorities has, moreover, tried to shoot secretly through the foreign journalists that were accompanying her, the control in the borders. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 25 November 2009 )
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Moroccan Sahara: 1,2 billion dollars of investments |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 |
 Within its constant and sustainable effort to expand the economic tissue of the Saharan provinces, Morocco has allocated the amount of 1,2 billion dollars of , direct and indirect, investments, relating to the basic infrastructure and the economic and social activities generating incomes for the people of the Saharan provinces, of the big Moroccan South. Hence, the economic, urban, cultural and social growth of the Saharan cities has become a concrete reality seen, touched and taken part in by everybody. Saharan cities are endowed with strong and performing infrastructure in terms of urban standard, ports and airports, pavements, roads and bridges, schools, colleges, high schools and training centers, dispensaries, hospitals and private hospitals, stadiums, fields and sport rooms, show and hobbies rooms, etc. Indeed, Southern cities enjoy the same conditions as their North homologues. This enormous effort made, within the framework of the South provinces development Agency, exceeds by far what Spain, the occupying power, has invested since 1884. We are beyond the initial vision of the Sahara of 1975, seen, felt and lived, by the nomad people as well as by those who have chosen to live their as a wide infinite range of desert, intersected of ill-assorted and badly equipped agglomerations and of water points spread along the Saharan roads taken by the dromedaries and camels. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 05 November 2009 )
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UN General Assembly : International support to Morocco |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Monday, 05 October 2009 |
 During the 64th working session of the UN General Assembly held in New York, many Heads of State and delegations have renewed, before the UN floor, their permanent support to the Kingdom of Morocco concerning the country’s territorial integrity and its efforts to reach a fair political solution to the conflict of the Sahara called the Western Sahara. Hence, the Gambian President, Mr. Al Hadji Yahya Jammeh, has been seen in the official stand, strongly reasserting, Thursday evening, in New York, his “total support” to Morocco’s territorial integrity. « My delegation, he emphasized, during his speech at the general debate of the 64th UN General Assembly session, renews its total support to the Kingdom of Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty”. Concerning the Sahara issue, “ we will remain, he added, convinced that the Moroccan government’s proposal to grant a wide autonomy to the Sahara region based on the negotiations initiated by the UN Security Council, conducted and agreed upon by the parties, will lead to a final and peaceful solution of the conflict”. As for the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic, Mr. Carlos Morales Troncos, expressing his opinion about the Sahara issue, he has reiterated the unchanged position of his country, which supports Morocco’s position and the Security Council’s efforts aiming at the conclusion of a political agreement between the parties in conflict Questioned by the MAP journalists, at the end of his meting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Mr. Taib Fassi Fihri, the Dominican Minister of Foreign Affairs has stated what follows: “We are with Moroccans. And Morocco knows that it can count on us in all forums”. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 05 October 2009 )
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The Polisario : the erosion continues... |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 |
 The return of Sheïkh Ahmadou Ould Souilem, Head of Oulad Dlim Tribe and founding member of the Polisario Front, is itself an important event as it concerns the return of the child prodigy to his homeland. The event is still more important, taking into consideration the place he occupies and his being a public figure on the Polisario leading and tribal scene and also taking into consideration the international context and the invitation of the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General, Mr. Christopher Ross for an informal meeting in Vienna between the parties in conflict, in the presence of the different parties affected by the regional importance of the Saharan conflict. The rallying of this figurehead of the Polisario, independent and respected by all for his strictness and integrity, is the logical result of a long series of the rallying of leaders, senior executives and high ranked militaries of the Polisario to the Sherifian Kingdom, the forgiving and merciful. It confirms one and a unique truth: the Morracanity of the Sahara and the permanent existence of historical, religious, cultural and socio-economic links between the historical Morocco and the Moroccan Sahrawi tribes. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 14 September 2009 )
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Over 120 British MPs support Moroccan Autonomy Plan for Sahara |
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A hundred and twenty-one members of the British House of Commons have signed a motion that lends support to the Moroccan initiative |
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Sahara issue: Morocco at 'historical turning point' |
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Morocco is witnessing a historical "turning point as result of the launch of the Manhasset negotiations between the parties in the Sahara issue," Morocco's Foreign Minister said on Monday. |
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UK Govt encourages 'continued engagement' |
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FCO Spokesman: UK Govt encourages 'continued engagement' of parties to Sahara issue |
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UN chief: 'in-depth discussions' |
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UN chief says talks over Sahara gave room for 'in-depth discussions' |
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