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The Polisario is threatening to cut ties with the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy, accusing him of siding with Morocco. Staffan de Mistura is open to criticism on many counts. Partiality is not one of them. But the real significance of the statement lies elsewhere. It is the latest sign of the mounting anxiety that has gripped the Polisario and its backers in Algiers in recent weeks. With another Security Council resolution approaching, it is now the other side that has reason to be afraid.

As the United States publicly urges the Polisario Front to turn the page on 50 years of fruitless waiting in Tindouf, Washington, through its UN representative Mike Waltz, is reaffirming its unwavering support for Morocco’s autonomy plan. The diplomatic pressure comes amid gathering international momentum aimed at forcing the separatists and their backers to face reality.

The prison administration says the hunger strike is unrelated to the detainees’ conditions and attributes it to directives from the Polisario and its supporters.

Following the dissemination by certain media outlets in the pay of the separatist front of misleading information regarding the audience granted by Ghanaian Foreign Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, to the individual they described as “the ambassador of the fictitious rasd to Ghana,” the Ghanaian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a clarification via its official Facebook and X (former Twitter) accounts, confirming that the State of Ghana’s decision to withdraw its recognition of the so-called “rasd,” dated January 6, 2025, remains in effect and has not been reversed.

While Colombia’s recent shift confirms the growing international momentum in favor of Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara, a handful of Latin American capitals continue to resist. Between Cold War-era ideological legacies, outdated diplomatic reflexes and economic pressure from Algiers, here is a closer look at a continent caught between dogmatism and geopolitical realities—but one that is now seriously shifting.

Moroccan academic and politician Lahcen Haddad challenged remarks calling for Morocco’s “political and economic destruction” aired on Cuatro’s Horizonte. The Madrid Press Association has now referred his complaint to Spain’s Journalism Ethics Commission, putting the broadcast and the lack of pushback on set under formal ethical scrutiny.

With an ideological interlude now over, the Republic of Colombia has made a major diplomatic shift by solemnly recognizing the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Morocco over its Sahara. At the heart of this diplomatic sequence, Farida Loudaya, Morocco’s ambassador to Bogotá, offers an uncompromising analysis of the stakes surrounding this irreversible decision. Interview.

In this second installment, Matthieu Ghadiri looks back on the mission entrusted to him by France’s DST, his cover identity as a future lawyer and member of the French Socialist Party, and the rapprochement between the Iranian and Algerian intelligence services. He sheds light on the discreet ties forged between the Iranian and Algerian apparatuses and describes a relationship based, according to him, on an exchange of services, covert operations and the projection of influence in Europe and Africa, particularly since 2005.

A new bipartisan bill introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressmen Ronny Jackson and Josh Gottheimer, already backed by six key lawmakers, calls for the Polisario Front to be designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) because of its ties to Iran. Supported by both Republicans and Democrats, the initiative reinforces the legislative efforts already spearheaded by Joe Wilson in the House and Ted Cruz in the Senate. This growing political and legal pressure in Washington comes at a critical moment, as the Tindouf militia continues to reject any form of negotiation.