Polisario Separatists Pose Security Threat in North Africa, WSJ Reports

For The Wall Street Journal, the Polisario is a Marxist-oriented separatist movement "linked to regional terrorism". To this effect, in a video testimony accompanying an article on the Sahara issue, journalist Dion Nissenbaum looks back on the genesis of this movement, as well as the threats posed by the lack of a settlement of the Sahara issue on peace and stability. According to him, the security situation in the region makes the conflict an urgent issue to resolve.

This reality, widely accepted by American political decision-makers, is also a priority for the administration of President Donald Trump, under pressure on several fronts to face the terrorist threat, and which does not fail to be attentive to the situation in the Sahara and Sahel region.

The newspaper does not fail to make recommendations. According to him, a new state in Africa could actually be less secure. "If you try to establish a new country, it could create an area that insurgents and groups like the Islamic State could take advantage of as a refuge," the journalist says in the same video. He did not fail to point out that Washington and Rabat share the same position on this issue.

While referring to Western and Moroccan officials, the author reassures of the support of the United States for Morocco on the Sahara issue. However, he advocates that independence cannot be an option for the settlement of the dispute over the Moroccan Sahara.