FRANCAISTriangle Génération Humanitaire - History
2000-2009
-From 2001, Algeria: Triangle starts a mechanical repair shop project in Western Saharan refugee camps in Tindouf. In the end, the garage is expected to be put under the control of the Ministry of Transports of the RASD (Democratic Sahrawi Arabian Republic), whose government is exiled in Algeria. In the past other humanitarian organisations, such as the ICRC and MSF had, in vain, tried to intervene in these refugee camps, held by the guerrillas of the Polisario Front who fought against the Moroccan occupation army. In the face of the impossibility of free access to the civilian population, they had to give up. Despite its support for the RASD, even the Danielle Mitterrand’s Foundation France Libertés has ended up by denouncing, in a report published in September 2003, the way in which the Front Polisario forced Moroccan prisoners of war in Rabouni to work unpaid on humanitarian projects, thus pocketing the salaries paid by the international organisations normally intended for the Sahrawi refugees. Funders also worried about the way food aid was diverted and sold on markets in Mauritania, Southern Algeria and Northern Mali.
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