By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on MAP
Several countries expressed regret on Tuesday before the UN General Assembly after Russia’s veto on 30 October 2026 of the US resolution on the Sahara. The text, backed by eleven Security Council members, would have extended MINURSO by a year and made the Moroccan autonomy initiative the basis for negotiations, US ambassador Mike Waltz recalled, according to MAP.
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Guterres and the UN place self-determination at the center of negotiations on the Sahara, while several countries support Morocco’s autonomy plan.
10 NovFrance wants to keep MINURSO and backs Moroccan autonomy plan
10 NovEU regrets Russian veto on MINURSO and warns of instability
10 NovMike Waltz criticises years of broken promises on the Sahara at the UNThe United States Permanent Representative to the UN, Mike Waltz, said before the General Assembly on 10 November 2026 that the Sahara issue has been marked by many years of broken promises, notably on a referendum. According to Lebrief, he was speaking after the Russian veto on MINURSO.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Source: Lebrief ·
Before the UN General Assembly, Ambassador Omar Hilale said the Sahara would remain Moroccan and held Algeria responsible for the deadlock, after Russia’s 30 October veto against renewing MINURSO, according to Libération (Morocco). He presented six questions and answers on the autonomy plan, the Tindouf camps and Algiers' role.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Source: Libération (Maroc) ·
Addressing the UN General Assembly, European Union ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis regretted the end of MINURSO, the only UN mechanism tasked with monitoring the 1991 ceasefire in the Sahara. He said the abrupt halt increases the risk of miscalculation, and reaffirmed EU support for Resolution 2797, based on Morocco’s autonomy plan, according to Yabiladi.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Source: Yabiladi ·
Addressing the UN General Assembly, Moroccan ambassador Omar Hilale said that "the Sahara was Moroccan before 30 October and will remain so after that date". He blamed Algeria for the blockage of a settlement, according to Lebrief.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Source: Lebrief ·
Bad weather: classes suspended in rural schools in Tetouan, MoroccoThe provincial education directorate in Tetouan is suspending classes on Wednesday 11 November in all rural schools, and in the afternoon in urban schools, because of weather disturbances, according to MAP. The provincial monitoring committee urges residents to exercise the greatest vigilance.
TF1 journalist says Algeria’s embassy in Paris hosts an intelligence networkChristophe Dubois, a reporter for TF1's programme Sept à huit, says on Le Figaro TV that Algeria maintains a clandestine intelligence apparatus in its embassy in Paris, with a security office linked to the consulates. He sets this out in his book Alger-Paris. Affaires toxiques, published in October 2026; Algiers has not reacted, according to La Nouvelle Tribune.The week in Africa
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