Less than 20 pc of the population of the Tindouf camps in southern Algeria is of Sahrawi origin, said Hamada El Bihi, a Moroccan citizen who was detained for 40 years in these camps of shame before returning to the mother country.

Shaibata Mrabih Rabou, President of the Sahara Center for Studies and Research on Development and Human Rights, has underlined that Algeria is responsible for the persistence of the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, as it defends head-on the obsolete referendum option, which the Security Council has definitively discarded since 2001.

Morocco expressed its dismay at the allegations of the spokesman of the Algerian presidency who said Tuesday that "the Moroccan Consul had indeed left the national territory at the request of Algeria" and that "the attitude of the Moroccan Consul was not surprising because he is a Moroccan intelligence officer".

Algeria has created the « polisario », provides it with military, logistical, and financial support, and mobilizes its diplomatic apparatus against Morocco's territorial integrity according to Colombian political scientist, and President of the CPLATAM think tank Clara Riveros.

After more than 40 years of successive failures, Polisario is today on the brink, says the Spanish political scientist Pedro Ignacio Altamirano.