After the downfall of their Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad and the weakening of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah by Israel, Algeria and the Polisario find themselves powerless as they witness the arrest of former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro by the United States military. This strategic loss is one that neither Algiers nor the Front dared to condemn.
On the eve of the Security Council’s vote on Thursday to adopt a new resolution extending MINURSO’s mandate in the Sahara for several more months, Algeria appears to be distancing itself from the Polisario, a move that marks a notable shift in Algiers’ long-standing foreign policy on the issue.
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