From well informed sources in Tindouf, Mohamed Abdelaziz has revealed to his close lieutenants his being embarrassed by the attitude adopted by Algiers towards the de facto partition of Mali. As the situation, prevailing in the  North of Mali, henceforth, within the hands of the separatist touaregs, in agreement with the jihadists of Aqmi, puts the Polisario leadership in a cold sweat. The Polisario Front considers that Algiers’ eagerness to reject the declaration of independence of North of Mali, puts Algiers as well as the Polisario in an extravagant situation. It is a fact, believes the separatist front, that the decision of the Algerian authorities is in opposition with the principle of self-determination of people which Algiers states to be defending through its support to the Polisario for the independence of the Western Sahara. It is true that the Algerian attitude towards the independence of Azawad is caused by its fear that the contagion of independence reaches the other touaregs in the South of Algeria.

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The last round of negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario was not at the taste of many Tindouf Sahrawi leaders . One should say that the Front leadership, disputing, with the support of Algeria, with Morocco over the sovereignty of the Western Sahara, was disconcerted by the quick succession of events which have preceded the meeting.
The Manhasset meeting of March 2012 took place in a political and diplomatic context less favourable. On the regional level, the Front leaders for independence were conscious that they  would risk to pay for the recent thaw between Morocco and Algeria, following the changes brought about by the Arab Spring in the region. Besides, the new Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki insists for the organization of a summit during 2012,  gathering the five Maghrebian countries were Polisario has no place. A situation which has provoked a great unrest in Tindouf between those adopting an inflexible position towards Morocco and a more realistic group who considers such a rigidity totally unproductive.

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The present leaders of the Polisario Front and other institutions of the Sahrawi Republic (SADR) are all non grata persona for the Sahrawi populations in Tindouf camps. After having strongly protested against the continuation of Mohamed Abdelaziz in his functions as chief of the Polisario Front and SADR President, the Sahrawi refugees sequestrated since more than 36 years in Lahmada camps in the South West of Algeria, have strongly denounced the confirmation on 27th February of the former Minister of Information, Khatri Adouh, in the functions of President of the National Sahrawi Council (CNS – Parliament), the functions he was assuming temporarily since the suspected death of Mahfoud Ali Beiba on the 2nd July 2010. The latter died officially following a heart attack but likely, he was killed by some DRS agents (Algerian military intelligence service). Ali Beiba was becoming very annoying with his positions judged in favour of the Moroccan autonomy plan, thus, for his chief Mohamed Abdelaziz and the DRS, he should be killed.
It is also for these reasons that among the young protesters opposing the confirmation of Adoh at the head of the CNS, are the leaders sympathizing or supporting Mahfod Ali Beiba. For sure, Abdelaziz was strong like marble as soon as he hears about protests  in the streets, remained faithful to his habits by giving orders to his armed militia to subdue this protest which might have spread in the whole camp of Tindouf.

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The next round of negotiations on the Sahara divides the ranks of the Polisario because of the recent warming of the inter-Maghreb relationships. A situation which torments the Chief of the Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, less than three weeks before the meeting of 11 March in Manhasset, in the suburb of New York. From well informed sources in Tindouf, it is the recent Maghreb rapprochement which is at the origin of the disagreement between the main leaders of the separatist Front. The discords have appeared during the meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers of the Maghreb countries, on February 18, in Morocco. For certain members from the Polisario leadership, the exchanges happening between the five UMA delegations are signs which do not deceive. Time is from now on for the rapprochement of the Maghreb countries and the Polisario cause is paying the cost of it. The most sceptic ones among the Polisario leaders do not doubt the continuing of the unconditional support of Algiers.

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