The Tunisian Islamist movement Ennahdha has flatly rejected reports that its leader Rached Ghannouchi had proposed his mediation in the diplomatic row opposing Morocco and Algeria, both tangled in a showdown over Algiers’s support for the Polisario separatist Front. London-based Middle East Eye (MEE) in a May 8 article, citing an anonymous Algerian diplomatic source, pointed out that Ghannouchi approached Rabat and Algiers to help iron out their differences. Speaking to HuffPost Tunisie, the Head of the office of the Tunisian Islamist movement Presidency, Fawzi Kammoun lambasted MEE’s article noting that the party does not interfere in other countries’ internal affairs. Rabat referred the April violation to the UN and called on Algiers to rein in its protégé. Rabat also announced on May 1 it was cutting off ties with Tehran over its support for the separatist group via its Lebanon-based Shia proxy movement Hezbollah.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 11, 2018 16:18 UTC