The Polisario Front has launched, since Friday, a campaign against Morocco, denouncing the death of a Sahrawi woman in Laayoune. Interviewed by an Algerian newspaper, Aminatou Haidar and Salem Tamek have followed in the movement’s footsteps.
In 1974, Algeria promised to help Morocco retrieve the Sahara. The second President of Algeria Houari Boumediene had even offered to support Morocco in its conflict with Spain. However, the neighboring country’s position changed after the Green March.
Launched on social media after the Algerian football team managed to reach the Africa Cup of Nations’ finale, a march will be organized Saturday to call for the reopening of land border between Algeria and Morocco.
To Tunisia’s former interim president Moncef Marzouki, the former Algerian regim was an obstacle to Maghreb integration. He revealed that Algerian leaders refused in the past to reopen borders with Morocco.