A new scandal involving the Polisario and its Algerian sponsors has made the headlines in a country in Latin America and the Caribbean. Caribbean daily WIC News reported on Monday that the separatist group had handed over 500,000 dollars to the Commonwealth of Dominica's opposition leader Lennox Linton to fund his campaign for the 2019 general election.

Faced with the current outcry over the continued diversion of European humanitarian aid intended for the population of Tindouf by the polisario and Algeria, the magazine "Insideover" highlights this matter, deploring "these millions of Italian euros gone up in smoke".

Presidents of the regions Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra and Dakhla-Oued Eddahab, Sidi Hamdi Ould Errachid and Yanja El Khattat have reiterated their "full" adherence and their "unequivocal" support to the Moroccan autonomy initiative as the only "realistic and feasible" way to end the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara.

The scandal of the diversion by Algeria and the "polisario" of food aid intended for the populations held against their will in the Tindouf camps has experienced a new twist in Italy after two human rights associations called for clarification on this matter.

The security crisis in the Tindouf camps has worsened recently due to the involvement of Polisario elements in organized crime activities and their relations with terrorist organizations in the Sahel, underlined Mohamed Tayyar, researcher in political studies.