The Laayoune-based  Rguibat Souaed tribe called the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki -moon to immediately intervene to put an end to violations and abuses committed by Polisario militia and Algerian forces against demonstrators in Tindouf camps (south-western Algeria ).

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.”