The Polisario Front appointed a new head of the intelligence services. The new director of Security and Documentation of the Front is the former commander of the second Saharawi military region, Sidi Ouagal.
His appointment, according to a note from Front, was announced yesterday, Wednesday, by a decree of the head of Polisario, Brahim Ghali.
Sidi Ouagal succeeded Abdellah Lahbib Belal who died, on the 1st of August, at Aïn Naaja hospital in Algiers, following his infection with Covid-19.
Ouagal served as head of the second Saharawi military region, a role he held for years until he was suddenly dismissed by the then defense minister, the late Abdalahi Lehbib.
On a provisional basis, Sidi Ouagal assumed the position at the beginning of this year as the new head of Security and Documentation (Intelligence Services of the Saharawi Republic, SADR) to which the former defense minister Abdalahi Lehbib has been appointed as minister.
The new official comes from a small tribe, the Sakarnas, who lived in the Tindouf camps in the shadow of the Rguibates.
Sidi Ouagal has spent his entire career in the army. He took part, during June and July, in meetings to delimit the “borders” between his movement and Algeria.
This appointment is already raising the anger among the victims of violations committed by the Polisario leadership.
The Sahrawi Association for the Defense of Human Rights (ASADEH) recalls that Sidi Ouagal, is “a torturer” whose name was submitted in the assocciation’s lawsuit along with twenty other senior in Polisario, including the Front’s leader Brahim Ghali, accusing them of “genocide”.
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