Amplio eco en la prensa árabe de la exclusiva de Atalayar sobre Tebboune y el expediente del Sáhara
The exclusive from the magazine Atalayar which reported that the Algerian President, Abdelmajdid Tebboune, intended to withdraw the dossier on the Sahara from the military with the creation of the Algerian Agency of International Cooperation (AACI) and the appointment, at its head, of Colonel Mohamed Chafik Mesbah has been widely reported in the Arab media, starting with the Moroccans, in recent days. Algerian media, however, have not included the scoop among their content.
The article signed by the journalist Pedro Canales and published on 28 April has been quoted by prestigious media such as the daily Al Quds Al Arabi, an independent pan-Arab newspaper published in London, or the prestigious media observatory Middle East Monitor in its English, French, Portuguese and Spanish versions, in which the text of Atalayar has been the second most read topic of the week.
Al Quds Al Arabi, a newspaper with a large circulation throughout the Arab world, published on April 29th an extensive text with numerous allusions to the magazine Atalayar in which it underlined the "double reading" of the appointment to the head of the AACI of the former member of the secret services Mohamed Chafik Mesbah. In the case of the Middle East Monitor (MEMO), the note entitled 'The Algerian President withdraws the Western Sahara dossier from the army', underlines, quoting Atalayar, that "one of the problems which Algeria is dragging along, linked to its foreign policy, is undoubtedly that of the conflict in the Sahara, in its two aspects, geopolitical and military".
In Morocco, the news of the presidential initiative which, as Canales himself writes in Atalayar, aims to "take control of foreign policy from the military and their spying services and to create conditions so that the question of Western Sahara and the political and strategic crisis in the Maghreb region become once again the prerogative of the Presidency of the Republic," was the subject of numerous mentions in national and regional circles.
For example, Morocco World News, a Moroccan-based media based in the United States - one of the few Moroccan media in English - stressed on Thursday that "the Algerian president is taking control of the Western Sahara dossier once again," quoting Atalayar - although he does not do so in the headline - and affirms in the subheading that the initiative "could be a sign of change in relations between Rabat and Algeria". The news also opens the section devoted to the question of the Sahara on this site. The French-language digital Moroccan site, alaune.ma, also reported the news advanced by Atalayar in a text which quotes, in turn, the Middle East Monitor.
In the same way, the Moroccan digital analkhabar.com brings to its website the information advanced by Pedro Canales, as does the medium aabbir.com. This is also the case with akhbarona.com and noonpresse.com. Similarly, digital achkayen.com dedicates information to the issue, which is accompanied by a link to the original Spanish version of Atalayar. The website kachaf.com also features an exclusive on this publication in a section dedicated to Moroccan news. Similarly, the digital nice-space.com in its section dedicated to Morocco echoes the information advanced by Atalayar. In all these cases, it is about media in Arabic.
The information of the magazine Atalayar last April 28th has also had repercussions in the regional press of our southern neighbour. Kawalis Rif, a digital Arabic speaker focusing on the northern region of Morocco, also devoted an article to it, as did Souss 24, a digital Arabic-language magazine specializing in the region of Sus-Masa, whose capital is the city of Agadir.