Exceptional circumstances in the 16th Polisario Front Congress

Algiers, Jan 12 (RHC) Exceptional circumstances surround the 16th Congress of the Polisario Front in Dakhla, Algeria, in the Western Sahara refugee zone.

At the end of December, during the preparations for the event that will last until January 17, the Secretary General of the Front and President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Brahim Ghali, assured the meeting will be decisive for the future of his town.

The appointment comes amid the rupture of the ceasefire with Morocco in November 2020 and its delegates will have the responsibility of evaluating the three-year term, electing new leadership, and updating the so-called fundamental law for the development of a renewed national program.

This edition of the Polisario conclaves will take place in the Dakhla refugee camp, some 1,500 kilometers from Algiers, due to insecurity since the lifting of the ceasefire by Morocco in the territories of Western Sahara.

The Congress arrives just one day after Yennayer, the celebration of the Amazigh Berber New Year every January 12, and in this case, to receive 2973, according to the agrarian calendar used by the Berbers since ancient times.

The organizing committee of the event highlighted the participation of more than 300 delegates from Latin American countries including Cuba, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe in the Wilaya of Dakhla.

Cuba will take part in the Polisario Front congress with a delegation headed by Yudí Rodríguez Hernández, a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. (Prensa Latina)