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Sahrawis return, consequence of the Moroccan autonomy initiative 2/28/2008
The return to Morocco of a hundred Sahrawis, who participated last December in Gjijimat congress near Tifariti, is a logical consequence of a long dissidence process within Polisario since its creation and glimmer of hope prompted by the Moroccan autonomy initiative among the sequestered people in the Tindouf camps. This large-scale return of families, which reflects the malaise afflicting the camps is particularly important because it is run by Polisario officials and several sheikhs, a social group, which has an obvious influence on tribal members, as a wise men, mediators, regulators and depository of the memory of tribes.
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Conversation between CORCAS chairman and a delegation of African intellectuals 2/27/2008
The Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid met Tuesday in Rabat, with a delegation of African intellectuals, led by Mr. Alioune Badara Beye, President of the Senegalese Association of Writers.In a statement to the press after their talks, which took place in the presence of the Council’s Secretary General, Mr. Malainaine Ben Khali Hanna Malainaine, Mr. Badara Beye said he informed Mr. Ould Errachid about the initiative taken by the African intellectuals to meet all the artistic and literary community in Africa to discuss the Moroccan absence in the African Union (AU) which they describe as "unjust".
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Nearly one hundred Sahrawis returned to the Motherland 2/27/2008
Nearly one hundred Sahrawis have returned, during the last twenty four hours, to the Motherland from the Tindouf camps in Algeria, three groups consisting of several persons that took part in Gjijimat congress, held last December in Tifariti region, in the Moroccan Sahara.
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Morocco's autonomy proposal offered new possibility, led to negotiations, Welsh 2/26/2008
Visiting U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, David Welsh said Morocco's proposal to grant substantial autonomy to the Sahara "offers a new possibility and it has led to these rounds of negotiations," in Manhasset, NY, in June, August and January.
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Fourteen Sahrawi families exchange new HCR-led family visits 2/25/2008
A new HCR-led family visit exchange was organized on Friday by the UN mission in the Sahara (MINURSO) between family members living in Morocco's Southern Provinces, The Sahara, and their relatives in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps, south-western Algeria. Twenty-three people from seven families from the southern province of Laayoune flew to the Tindouf camps in the morning, while thirty-one members of seven families traveled from these camps to Dakhla, in the 7th visit exchange since the beginning of 2008, a press release of the Moroccan Office of Coordination with MINURSO said.
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