By settling thousands of inhabitants of Western Sahara in the Tindouf camps, Algeria has only materialized a project dating from 1967. It aimed at making the city a capital of the Sahrawis.
«Pedro Sanchez has renounced» his support for the Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara. This is the astonishing version given by the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs to justify the resumption of his country's relations with Spain.
On Sunday, the official Algerian news agency published an article on the Sahara… located in Egypt, believing that the case was linked to Western Sahara.
Despite Algeria and the Polisario’s pressure, President Joe Biden did not address the Sahara issue during his first foreign policy speech.
Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum said that his country expects from the United States the «impartiality required by the current challenges» on several issues, including that of Western Sahara.