Mail & Guardian: Pretoria weighing economic & political risks of U.S. designation of Polisario terrorist organization – The North Africa Post

Pressure Mounts on US to Designate Polisario a ‘Terrorist’ Group, Strengthen Support for Morocco

A growing wave of security experts and policymakers is urging the United States to take decisive action against the Algeria-backed Polisario Front by designating it a foreign terrorist organization and opening the long-promised US consulate in Dakhla in the Sahara region. A new report from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a Washington-based think tank, outlines in stark terms how the Polisario Front, once seen as a regional separ…

Mail & Guardian: Pretoria weighing economic & political risks of U.S. designation of Polisario terrorist organization – The North Africa Post

The American designation of the Polisario a foreign terrorist organization will have serious implications for South Africa, warned South-African newspaper Mail & Guardian. Such a designation will deprive the separatist group of its traditional state supporters namely Algeria and South Africa, said the daily in a recent Op-Ed authored by Michael Walsh, senior fellow at […]