Could you please make your problem or question a little more clear?

Really, I don't understand what do you want. Here we are commenting a book on Western Sahara. In the event you are looking for a scholarship to study, my personal opinion is that you shoud try searching on Internet.

Thanks for your attention,

Luis Portillo

The review of the book is very well written, in a clear and simple language, and the title of the work is also very telling: “Africa’s Last Colony: Spain’s Error, Morocco’s Sin; An African Journalist’s Diary On Western Sahara”. As Professor Nuhu YAQUB (former Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja) has described in the book's Foreword, it is a timely addition to literature on Africa’s decolonization process.

But having said this, I wish to state the following:

1) Concerning Mary Rizzo: I am very grateful to her by her high sensitivity towards such catastrophic tragedies like the Western Sahara, and her great heart bringing to PTT the Saharawi cause and articles relating to the forgotten Saharawi people. I know this causes her many problems. So, thank you very much again, Mary, on behalf of the forgotten Saharawi people.

2) Concerning Mr. Sami Jamil: I fear that only a few (very few, if any) Sahrawis will be willing to squander or waste their scarce and valuable time by replying to Mr. Sami Jamil’s malicious comments, after ¡34 years! suffering in the refugee camps of Tindouf, as well as in the Territories of Western Sahara occupied by Morocco, or elsewhere in the Diaspora. On the contrary, they need (and really should) save their energy and time for tasks more pressing and necessary for its people and their freedom. (Simply, they may be weary of falling into the trap of the “monologues” designed by Morocco’s Poisoning Services, no matter the “new” name of the persons who write these comments).

By the way, "Agony in Western Sahara", the article written by Sola BALOGUN, has been translated into Spanish and also into French by TLAXCALA, and you can find it also in many other websites:

“El martirio del Sáhara Occidental”,
http://www.tlaxcala.es/pp.asp?reference=9138&lg=es

You can sign the petition: "Stop the EU fisheries in Western Sahara!" by clicking on my name above.

Thank you very much for your attention.

I see that Morocco’s Intoxication Services have bettered very much since last time we had the opportunity to meet here, on PTT. Now the method has changed a little… Isn’t it?

“To begin with”, you “have to admit that” you are something more than a mere “biased observer in favor of Morocco”, isn’t true? Obviously you will deny it at all, as expected.

Well, I am going to write my comments later on. But for the moment, I think it is enough with the following question:

You (a mere “biased observer in favor of Morocco”, don’t forget it) say: “Many people forget that the Polisario leadership kidnapped Sahara children and sent them to Cuba against the will of their parents…”

Instead, Many people and you self forget:

What did Morocco with more than 500 Sahrawi citizens?

Where are they even today, 35 years thereafter?

Asked Morocco these “kidnapped Sahara children” (“sent to Cuba”) before invading Western Sahara, before bombing them with napalm and white phosphorus, before pursuing them and trying to exterminate the whole people?

Why do you (a mere “biased observer in favor of Morocco”) forget these things, that is, the very reason and the very problem’s origin?

Now, you (a mere “biased observer in favor of Morocco”) will answer following Phase 2 of the Intoxication Protocol, Isn’t it?

The 07 human rights activists known as "the Group Degja Lachgrar", the only woman among them: Brahim Dahanne, Dagje Lachgar, Ahmed Nassiri, Ali Salem Tamek, Lebaihi and Rachid Sghaer, and Terouzi Yahdih who were arrested on 08.10.2009 after their visit to the Saharawi refugee camps appeared yesterday 15/10/2009 in front of the judge of the court of appeals in Casablanca who decided to make them appear before the military court due to incompetence.

In the same day in the afternoon of that same day, they appeared before a military court judge in Rabat who detained them until 01: 00 am on 16/10/2009.

The 07 detainees were brought afterwards to the prison of Sale (Morocco).

Therefore, they are charged with heavy allegations.

We demand their immediate release. Can you help?

http://www.my-cause.com/cause/free_the_sahrawi_prisoners

I was ignorant of this situation for a long time, because I did not know about it until I personally came in contact with these people, and that was merely by accident, and I am enriched by knowing these children and the adults that accompany them. The trips are no longer happening, because the financing ended, so it hurts my heart to think too of how these children maybe feel that they have been forgotten by those who provided them just three weeks a year of a change and release from feeling imprisoned, as well as getting some health treatments that for some reason were never provided. I have a few friends who are Arab nationalists and they don't understand the Sahrawi feelings for autonomy, thinking that it will fragment Arab unity. I personally have not seen the contrast as such. It to me is the same as the Palestinian self-determination needs and the recognition of Arab unity. I realise that this is a dividing line for some activists, I realise that, but I am happy too that this issue is being aired.