Spain evacuates aid workers from Tindouf camps
Spain is evacuating all its aid workers and three other foreign nationals from refugee camps in Tindouf, western Algeria, due to "growing insecurity".
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Spain-evacuates...
Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said 12 Spaniards, two French nationals and an Italian would arrive in Madrid by military plane on Sunday, the BBC reports.
Earlier this month three European aid workers seized from a refugee camp near Tindouf were released by Mujao who handed them over to a third party. Mujao an offshoot of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
Mr Garcia-Margallo said the decision had been taken after reviewing "well-founded evidence of a serious increase in insecurity in the region". He said that the north of neighbouring Mali had been "converted into a platform for terrorism"..
Many commentators have drawn attention to the increasing danger of links between young sahrawis in the Tindouf camps and criminal and terrorist groups operating in the Sahel and particularly Mali.
Last October, Spanish aid workers Enric Gonyalons and Ainhoa Fernandez along with Italian colleague Rossella Urru were seized from the Rabuni refugee camp near Tindouf by rebels from the previously unknown Movement for Oneness and Jihad (Mujao).
Earlier this month three European aid workers seized from a refugee camp near Tindouf were released by Mujao who handed them over to a third party. Mujao an offshoot of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
Mr Garcia-Margallo said the decision had been taken after reviewing "well-founded evidence of a serious increase in insecurity in the region". He said that the north of neighbouring Mali had been "converted into a platform for terrorism"..
Many commentators have drawn attention to the increasing danger of links between young sahrawis in the Tindouf camps and criminal and terrorist groups operating in the Sahel and particularly Mali.
Last October, Spanish aid workers Enric Gonyalons and Ainhoa Fernandez along with Italian colleague Rossella Urru were seized from the Rabuni refugee camp near Tindouf by rebels from the previously unknown Movement for Oneness and Jihad (Mujao).
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Spain-evacuates...