Although the special adviser to President Donald Trump for Africa was dropped from Massad Boulos’s Algerian agenda in July, the Polisario only officially learned on Sunday, via Staffan de Mistura, of the U.S. proposal to resolve the Sahara dispute.
The Polisario Front is no longer demanding a referendum, independence, or the implementation of the settlement plan drafted nearly four decades ago by the UN and the Organization of African Unity. Instead, it now advocates for a «mutually acceptable political solutio» to the Sahara issue. Are we witnessing a turning point? To better understand the reasons behind this shift in the Front’s leadership, Yabiladi spoke with Mohamed Elghet Malainine, Vice President of the Moroccan