The UN Fifth Committee approved earlier this week the MINURSO’s budget for 2019/20. The approved budget is higher than the one allocated to the peacekeeping mission in the previous year. This decision comes amid the United States’ UN cuts.
The Polisario’s leadership was slammed by NGOs attending the 41st regular session Human Rights Council. The Front has launched a campaign against Sahrawi activists, arresting three individuals in the Tindouf camps.
According to forecasts revealed by the United Nations, Morocco’s population is expected to decrease in the coming decades. Meanwhile, its population will be getting older.
On Monday, the UN Special Committee on decolonization discussed the Western Sahara issue in a session held in New York. During the meeting, attended by several delegations, the Kingdom was backed by its classical allies in Africa and in Middle East.
Three weeks after Germany’s former president Horst Kohler resigned, Algeria sent its Foreign Minister to New York to meet with the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. This trip aims at reiterating Algeria’s support to the Polisario.