Aminatou Haidar recently appeared on the official Polisario television channel. The president of the «Sahrawi Instance Against Moroccan Occupation» was invited to share her views on the «March for the Liberation of Sahrawi Prisoners», launched at the end of March by French activist Claude Mangin, the wife of Naama Asfari. Asfari was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his involvement in the killing of several law enforcement officers during the dismantling of the Gdim Iziik camp in November 2010 in Laayoune. During her speech, Haidar «praised the noble objectives of the campaign», according to the Sahrawi Press Service (SPS). She also used the platform to strongly criticize «the Moroccan occupation» and denounce its «crimes against the Sahrawis». Haidar's reappearance, after a long period of political marginalization, is part of a new strategy by the Polisario leadership under Brahim Ghali. The movement is seeking to rally the few figures who still hold credibility on the European stage to promote its narrative and defend its positions—even when those figures are not part of the dominant tribal structures within the Polisario or are openly critical of how the Tindouf camps and the broader Saharan issue are being managed. This return to familiar tactics is driven by Morocco's recent diplomatic gains, including the Trump administration's April 8 reaffirmation of Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara and calls to designate the Polisario Front as a terrorist organization in the United States.
