Algerian and Polisario security forces have responded with more violence to crack down on the upsurge of social unrest in the Tindouf camps, stronghold of the Polisario in southwestern Algeria, reports Spanish info site “Iuexsed.com”.

The Washington Post warned Wednesday against links between terrorist groups operating in North Africa and Sahel and locally recruited members of Polisario in Tindouf camps , highlighting the rise in the region of Al Qaeda and extremist groups affiliated to it.

A pre- insurrectional climate is settling in Tindouf camps where Polisario separatists are based in south- western Algeria, reported Monday « Le Courrier Stratégique » a magazine based in Paris, specializing in strategic issues.

A report by the International Center for Terrorism Studies, under US think tank Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, submitted Friday in Washington, urged the dismantling of the “Polisario militia and freeing populations in captivity in the Tindouf camps which have become a hotbed for Al Qaeda recruiters and traffickers.”

The President of the EU-Morocco Friendship Group at the European Parliament, Gilles Pargneaux, welcomed the adoption by Congress of the 2014 Appropriations Act which provides for the first time funds to finance development projects in the southern provinces of the Kingdom.