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Spanish hostages freed by al-Qaida-linked group following prisoner swap, allegations of ransom
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Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate arrived Tuesday in Barcelona after a multi-million-dollar ransom was reportedly paid for their freedom — a sign of the terrorist group's growing sophistication in bankrolling operations through kidnappings, experts said Aid workers Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta were abducted last November when their convoy of 4-by-4s was attacked by gunmen on a stretch of road in Mauritania, They were whisked away to Mali, whose northern half is now one of the many stretches of remote desert where al-Qaida of Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, has stretched its tentacles ,Late on Monday afternoon, the pair stepped out of a helicopter that landed on the grounds of the presidential palace in Burkina Faso and were handed a cell phone.
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CCDH urges rights NGOs to intervene to ensure safe return of Mostafa Salma Sidi Mouloud to Tindouf
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The Moroccan Advisory Council on Human Rights (CCDH) urged, on Tuesday, all the national and international human rights organizations to do their best so that the senior polisario official, Mostafa Salma Sidi Mouloud, can return to Tindouf (south-western Algeria) safe and sound and defend his opinions freely,"CCDH urges all sister national institutions, including the National Consultative Human Rights Commission of Algeria, all international agencies and all national and international human rights associations to do their best so that Mr Mostafa Salma Sidi Mouloud can return to Tindouf safely and defend his opinions freely," The CCDH said in a statement The CCDH, which received a letter from Mostafa Salma Sidi Mouloud in which he expressed fear of "possible retaliation by the leadership of the Polisario Front," underlined that "given the deplorable state of human rights in the Tindouf camps, or even the illegal character of these camps under the international humanitarian law, the fear of retaliation expressed by Mr.
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Perfect timing means to stop waiting for it
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It bothers me when I hear people describe a personal set of conditions that need to be met before they can make the next move in their life Most often, they’re just making excuses — creating obstacles that aren’t actually there, placing the blame on some outside force they can’t control, and choosing to let day after day of inaction turn into many years of waiting for their cosmos to align.
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the sahrawi activist Mohammed Ould Mohammed Mbarek considered the situation of human rights in Tinduf camps as “catastrophic”, and call the present leadership of the Polisario to resign
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January 2, 2010 12:00 AM
“Al-Arabiya channel” reported in its news programme at 22h00 on December 31st, 2009 that the sahrawi activist Mohammed Ould Mohammed Mbarek, who is a member of Khad Chahid, a dissident faction of the Polisario Front, has considered the situation of human rights in Tinduf camps as “catastrophic”, calling the present leadership of the Polisario to resign and open the way for young sahrawis to lead In addition, in an interview with the same news programme, the coordinator of the movement Mahjoub Essalek considered the present leadership of the Polisario as “incompetent and corrupt which, after a period of 19 years of stalemate (no war and no peace), did not allow the sahrawi people to go forth, and just interested in gaining profits, at the expense of the sufferings of sahrawi women and children in the Tinduf camps”.
Mahjoub Essalek precise, also, that his movement had called the leadership of the Polisario Front to open a dialogue and to organise a free, democratic, just and transparent conference, instead of drama conferences organized every other three years, in order to allow the sahrawi people to decide his own fate.
Finally, Mahjoub Essalek considered that “negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario are turning around the bush of which the Polisario takes profit”. Essalek calls to inject young blood in the leadership and to set doors wide open for young competences to participate in serious negotiations, able to find a global solution, capable of constituting the Maghreb Union that combines all nations of the region with a sense of liberty, democracy and human rights respect.
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