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08 Jun 2011

Algeria + 1 other
Sahrawi family leaves Tindouf camps to settle in Laayoune

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse

Laayoune - A Sahrawi family left the polisario-run Tindouf camps (south-western Algeria) to settle definitively in Laayoune, following the latest UNHCR-led family exchange visit between the camps and the Kingdom's southern provinces, the Sahara.

The family, made up of the mother Salka Idda Benomar, 49, her 18-year-old daughter Fatima Abderahmane and 7-year-old son Mohamed Yahdih Abderhamane, arrived in Laayoune on Friday within the framework of the 19th family visit flights in 2011.

This visit exchange benefited 52 people, of whom 21 are from Tindouf camps.

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27 May 2011

Algeria + 1 other
New UNHCR-led family visit exchange benefits eleven families

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse

Laayoune - Eleven Sahrawi families benefited, on Friday, from a new family visit flights led by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

Under this programme, members of Sahrawi family living in the Moroccan southern provinces visit their relatives in the Tindouf camps in south-western Algeria, and vice-versa.

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20 May 2011

Algeria + 1 other
New UNHCR-led family visit exchange benefits eleven families

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse

Laayoune - Eleven Sahrawi families benefited, on Friday, from a new family visit flights led by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

Under this programme, members of Sahrawi family living in the Moroccan southern provinces visit their relatives in the Tindouf camps in south-western Algeria, and vice-versa.

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13 May 2011

Algeria + 1 other
New UNHCR-led family visit exchange benefits fourteen families

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse

Laayoune - Fourteen Sahrawi families benefited, on Friday, from a new family visit flights led by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Under this programme, members of Sahrawi family living in the Moroccan southern provinces visit their relatives in the Tindouf camps in south-western Algeria, and vice-versa.

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29 Mar 2011

Algeria + 1 other
New UNHCR-led family visit exchange benefits eleven families

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse
Laayoune - Eleven Sahrawi families benefited, on Friday, from a new family visit flights led by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Under this programme, family members living in the Moroccan southern provinces visit their relatives in the Tindouf camps in south-western Algeria, and vice-versa.

The new visit exchange, the eleventh in 2011, benefited 62 people from 11 families. Thus, 30 people flew from Laayoune to the camps, while 32 members of 4 families flew from the camps to the southern provinces, the Moroccan Coordination Office with the UN

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11 Feb 2011

Algeria + 1 other
Family visits exchange to and from Morocco's southern provinces continues

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse
Laayoune - The UNHRC-facilitated family visits exchange operation between the Tindouf camps (Algeria's south) and Morocco's southern provinces, continued, on Friday, as the fifth trip in 2011 was organized from and to the provinces of Oued Eddahab and Aousserd.

The new exchange included 48 beneficiaries, including 15 children and 21 women, belonging to thirteen families, said a statement of the Moroccan coordination office with MINURSO.

Eighteen people belonging to five families from the province of Oued Eddahab embarked Friday morning aboard a UN aircraft

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28 Sep 2009

Western Sahara + 1 other
Algeria: Morocco calls on HCR to resettle Tindouf population in third countries

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse
Geneva - Morocco called Monday on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (HCR) to resettle, in line with its mandate, the population sequestered in the Camps of Tindouf (South Western Algeria) in third countries.

Due to the current human blockade, Morocco would like to ask the HCR to take the necessary measures to implement this solution and inform the populations of the Tindouf Camps about their right to leave these camps and freely choose to resettle in a third country, said Morocco's Ambassador and Permanent Representative at the UN Office in Geneva, Omar Hilale.

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12 Sep 2009

Algeria + 1 other
Algeria: Morocco needs UNHCR to overcome status quo in Tindouf, FM

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse
Rabat - Morocco has requested the input of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to change the status quo in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps.

The remarks were given Friday by Foreign Minister, Taib Fassi Fihri at a joint press conference with the high commissioner for refugees, Antonio Guterres, on a visit in the north African country.

"We need the UNHCR, not only to carry out the humanitarian mandate of the agency, but also to help us find a lasting solution" to the situation in the Tindouf camps, Fassi Fihri told reporters.

The Algerian-backed Polisario separatists

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03 Aug 2009

Algeria + 2 others
Informal meeting on Sahara on Aug. 10-11 in Austria

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse
New York - Delegations of the parties to the Sahara dispute and the neighbouring countries (Algeria and Mauritania) will hold informal meetings on August 10-11 in Austria, a spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General announced on Monday.

The spokesperson told MAP the informal meetings will be held at the invitation of the Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Mr Christopher Ross, with the unanimous support of the UN Security Council.

The source added that these meetings are intended to give fresh momentum to the negotiation process called for

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18 Apr 2009

Western Sahara + 1 other
Sahrawi tribes decry entry of 1,400 people into buffer zone in Sahara

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse
Laâyoune - The leaders of Sahrawi tribes denounced Friday the entry of about 1,400 people, including foreigners supervised by the Algeria-backed Polisario separatists and in possession of individual weapons and mine detection equipments, into the buffer zone in the Sahara.

The entry of these people, supervised also by Algerian elements, on board of jeeps and lorries, is a breach of the UN-sponsored cease-fire agreement, the Sahrawi leaders said in a statement.

The leaders called on the international community and human rights organizations to interfere in order to set free

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12 Dec 2008

Western Sahara + 1 other
Norwegian NGO defends rights of Tindouf camps population to return to their country of origin

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse
Oslo, 12 Dec. 2008 (MAP) - The Norway-based NGO, World Action for Refugees, denounced the inhuman living conditions imposed on the populations of the Tindouf camps, in south western Algeria, in violation of the Human Rights Charter, and called for their free return to their country of origin in accordance with the wish of the majority among them.

In a manifesto distributed Wednesday in Oslo on the occasion of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the NGO denounced the "inhuman

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11 Dec 2008

Algeria
Algeria: UNHCR sets Tindouf camp populations at 90,000

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse
Geneva, Dec. 11 (MAP) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has set the population of the Polisario-run Tindouf camps, Algeria at 90,000, thus questioning again the numbers put forward by the Algeria authorities, which still refuse to conduct a census of these populations.

Morocco has requested, during two decades, the UNHCR to conduct a census of these populations, in accordance with the international scientific criteria, in order to collect accurate demographic data on the number of people living in these camps and on their origins.

Such an operation is the only tool to

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06 Oct 2008

Algeria + 1 other
Algeria: Sahrawi NGO calls on ICRC, AI to end sufferings of population held in Tindouf camps

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse
Geneva, October 6 - The Comité Spécial chargé du Sahara Marocain en Europe (CSCSME), a Saharwi NGO, has called upon the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Amnesty International to immediately intervene in order to put an end to the sufferings endured by the Sahrawi population held in the Tindouf camps, southwest of Algeria.

In a letter addressed by the NGO president, El Hassane Benhammou, to the president of the Geneva-based ICRC, the CSCSME drew anew the ICRC's attention to "the tragic situation of the Moroccan

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04 Apr 2008

Algeria + 1 other
Algeria: Tragic humanitarian situation in Tindouf camps unveiled to U.S. State Department senior officials

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse
Washington, Apr.4 - Minister of Social Development, Family and Solidarity, Nouzha Skalli, on Thursday, held talks with several officials of U.S. State Department, to whom she unveiled the tragic humanitarian situation prevailing in the Polisario-run camps of Tindouf, southwestern Algeria.

During her meetings, notably with Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Erica J. Barks-Ruggles, and US Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Kent Patton, Mrs. Skalli highlighted the tragic situation

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14 Mar 2008

Algeria
Algeria: Sahrawi delegation urges HCR to ensure aid reaches population in Tindouf

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse
Geneva, Mar. 14 - A delegation made up of several Polisario ex-members, and Sahrawi officials and NGOs members called upon the Higher Commissioner for Refugees (HCR) to ensure that the humanitarian aid reaches the Sahrawi population sequestered in Tindouf camps, southwest Algeria.

Speaking at a meeting held on sidelines of the 7th session of the Human Rights Council, the delegation shed the light on the Sahrawis' suffering in the Tindouf Camps where they live in "a hostile environment, deprived from their basic needs."

The delegation also called the HCR to

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14 Feb 2006

Algeria
Algérie : Les habitations et "les infrastructures" gravement endommagées dans les camps, après les récentes intempéries

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse
Alger - Les pluies diluviennes, qui se sont abattues les 9 et 10 février sur les camps de Tindouf, ont "gravement endommagé 50 pc" de ce que le prétendu "polisario" appelle des "infrastructures administratives et des habitations déjà précaires dans les camps de Tindouf", selon la presse algérienne, livraison de mardi.
Les pluies diluviennes ont poussé plusieurs familles, selon la même source, à quitter les camps et à gagner les rares collines pour y passer les nuits, de peur d'être emportées par les flots.

Plus de 12.000 familles ont perdu leurs

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13 Feb 2006

Algeria
Algérie : Pluies diluviennes dans les camps de Tindouf - importants dégâts matériels et protestation des habitants

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse
Tindouf, 13/02/06 - Des pluies diluviennes, accompagnées d'orages et de vents violents, se sont abattues dernièrement sur les camps de Tindouf, détruisant plusieurs tentes et causant d'importants dégâts aux habitations en pisé et aux biens des populations.
Ces pluies ont attisé la tension dans les camps, dont les habitants se sont retrouvés seuls, face à cette catastrophe naturelle, sans la moindre assistance des "responsables" qui se sont éclipsés et ont laissé la population abandonnée à son sort dans la peur et la frayeur, ont rapporté des témoins oculaires.
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08 Nov 2004

Algeria + 4 others
Maghreban agriculture ministers call for support to anti-locust program

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse
TUNIS, Nov.8 - Maghreban agriculture ministers have called for support to the anti-locusts action plan drafted by the Arab Maghreb Union, a north African grouping mustering Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia.
The ministers, who met over the week end in Gammarth (suburbs of Tunis), called the UMA secretariat general to carry on its moves with the European Union to incite it to bring an assistance for the implementation of the anti-locust action plan. They also stressed the need to carry on efforts and consolidate national capacities with additional material and human means.
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24 May 2003

Algeria
Algérie-séisme: Six avions marocains chargés d'aide arrivent à Alger

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse
Alger, 24/05/03 - Six avions C-130 marocains au total ont atterri à Alger dans le cadre de l'aide humanitaire et de l'assistance technique apportée par le Royaume, après le séisme qui a frappé la capitale algérienne et ses environs et qui a fait jusqu'à présent 1.600 morts et plus de 7.000 blessés.

Les deux derniers avions sont arrivés vendredi soir, transportant, l'un, 300 tentes (18 tonnes) et 500 couvertures (1,5 tonne) et l'autre, 11,2 tonnes de médicaments et 4,5 tonnes de couvertures.

Trois autres avions étaient déjà arrivés

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22 May 2003

Algeria
Aide de 2 millions de dh de la Fondation Mohammed V aux populations algériennes

Report
— Maghreb Arabe Presse
Rabat, 22/05/03 - "En application des Hautes Instructions Royales, la Fondation Mohammed V pour la Solidarité a réservé une aide financière de deux millions de dh pour venir en aide aux populations algériennes victimes du tremblement de terre qui a frappé la région d'Alger", indique un communiqué de la Fondation.

Cette aide qui est en cours d'acheminement consiste en 19 tonnes de lait en poudre et de médicaments divers.

=A9MAP 2003

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