The UN report highlights observations of the UNHCR about the Tindouf population

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed in his latest report to the Security Council on the Sahara conflict that UN humanitarian agencies have continued to cover the needs of the Tindouf camp population by granting it «125 000 food rations monthly».

These food rations are sent to 90, 000 people living in the Tindouf camps, as adopted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Food Program (WFP) in 2005. The 35,000 additional rations were added in 2006, after a series of floods in the camps.

Thus, the report of the Secretary-General contradicts the numbers reported in the recent weeks by Algeria and the Polisario Front. This report is published shortly after UNHCR's 28 September communiqué, reaffirming that «these estimates will be maintained until a proper population census is conducted».

For the record, Morocco and the resolutions adopted by the Security Council have been calling since 2011, for population census in the Tindouf camps.