Algerian President Hosts Polisario Leader, Signaling Continued Tension with Morocco

This audience, which is part of the 46th anniversary of the proclamation, on February 27, 1976, of the "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic," made the headlines of the Algerian and separatist media. The Algerian presidency announced it in a brief statement.

This reception, the first of its kind since Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s accession to power, once again testifies to the support the Algerian president gives to the Polisario. On February 18, he had also, in his speech on the second anniversary of the Hirak, affirmed that "there is no solution to the Sahrawi issue outside the self-determination of the Sahrawi people. The Sahara issue is a case of decolonization."