Since 1975, Algeria has spent not less than 600 million dollars for its strategic cause in the Sahara
 
What is really happening in the Maghreb? What is the real problem in this part of Africa? Is it only a matter of side effects of terrorism and the absence of security in the region of Sahel and north Africa, or is it the consequences of Algerian well defined interests?

The porosity of the polisario to The Unity Movement for Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), which operates in northern Mali, is a "real source of concern" for Spain which has repatriated its humanitarian workers from the Tindouf camps (south-eastern Algeria) due to "serious risks" of hostage-taking, the French speaking weekly, Jeune Afrique, said in its Monday edition.

Spain hopes that a “just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution” to the Sahara issue will be achieved, Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Garcia Margallo said.

The announcement of the dismantling by Moroccan security services of a terrorist network linked to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) confirms analysts' fears that the violence that occurred in Laayoune lays bare AQIM's aims in the region.

The involvement of the polisario network in drug trafficking in the Sahel-Saharan region is worrying all the more so because its former soldiers joined Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in the region, wrote weekly newsmagazine "Jeune Afrique" in its latest issue.