Sahel Intelligence
The opinion of several experts gathered last weekend in Marrakech converged to assert the risks separatist tendencies, including the Polisario Front in the Western Sahara, pose on security in the Sahel-Saharan.
The most telling example is Mali, where the country is still recovering from the long security crisis that has known for 18 months, induced by an old separatist claim.
Daouda Diallo Boubacar for, coordinator RIESCA (International Network for Strategic Studies on Conflict in Africa), the separatist demands are even more dangerous than the vast African region consists of a mosaic of ethnicities and cultures.
The subject could not not to think about the claims of the Polisario Front in Western Sahara Moroccan, particularly at a time when allegations of collusion between the organization and the Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb terrorist group become clearer. The ICTS (International Centre for Terrorism Studies) under the American think tank “Protomac Institute for Policy Studies,” recently published a report on the subject at a conference at the “National Press Club” in Washington. According to the report, the Tindouf camps have become a place of choice for recruiters recruitment of Al Qaeda and traffickers of all kinds. This report goes in the same direction as that presented last April by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
At the “Marrakech Security Forum” last weekend that brought together experts as well as senior military personnel from 80 countries, Mariane Evor the University Of Land in Sweden called for a proper management of the identity issue in the aim of achieving national cohesion with sovereign states guaranteeing cultural rights and identity of people.
