In a letter addressed to the European Commission in charge of development and humanitarian aids, the association head, Louis Michel, has recalled that "Polisario, backed by Algerian authorities, has been sounding, for the latest few days, alarm on the humanitarian situation in Tindouf, meant first and foremost to earn donors' sympathy (...)."
 
    Earlier, Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Khalihenna ould Errachd, underlined, in two separate letters to the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees (HCR) and the Executive Director of the World Food program (WFP), that the so-called famine threat in the camps of Tindouf, alleged by the Polisario through the so-called "Sahrawi Red Crescent (SRC)" and some Algerian media outlets, is a pure false allegation to further profit from the international aid, which benefits only a handful of Polisario leaders," wondering, in this regard, why the Polisario and Algeria refused that the United Nations carry out a fair and clear population census in Tindouf.
 
    Morocco’s southern provinces, the Sahara, were until 1975 a Spanish colony. Morocco retrieved the territory under the Madrid Accord signed the same year with Spain and Mauritania.
 
    A year later, Algeria, for political and strategic reasons, decided to back the separatist movement pushing it to claim independence of the territory, which would provide her with direct access to the Atlantic Ocean.