The new South African Foreign Minister admitted that she is not «fully up to date» on her country’s position on Morocco. Naledi Pandor said that she is also unaware of the outcomes of the Southern African Development Community solidarity conference, held in March to support the Polisario Front.
Cote d’Ivoire has announced that it is opening an honorary consulate in Laayoune. The inauguration ceremony is taking place on Wednesday, an official told Yabiladi. The decision was denounced by a pro-Polisario platform.
On Monday, Morocco announced that it is attending the US-led peace conference in Bahrain, expected to introduce the economic portion of the «Deal fo the Century». This decision was denounced by anti-normalization groups, which had urged the Moroccan authorities to boycott the meeting.
On Sunday, the Mauritanian electoral commission announced that Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has won presidential election with an absolute majority. Speaking to Yabiladi, politicial analysts from Nouakchott said that they expect the new president to learn from his predecessor’s mistake and strengthen ties with the Kingdom.
Former Polisario leader Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud said that the Front’s leadership has launched a campaign against Sahrawi activists in the Tindouf camps. In one week, two members of opposition group the Sahrawi Initiative for Change were arrested by the separatist movement’s leadership.
The Moroccan parliament will examine, Wednesday, a bill on joining the African Continental Free Trade Area. As in January 2017 with the Constitutive Act of the African Union, having «SADR» among the parties that signed AfCFTA shouldn’t be a stumbling block.
On Monday, the UN Special Committee on decolonization discussed the Western Sahara issue in a session held in New York. During the meeting, attended by several delegations, the Kingdom was backed by its classical allies in Africa and in Middle East.
Following the sudden death of Egypt’s former President Mohamed Morsi, Islamist scholars and politicians in Morocco extended their condolences to the family of the deceased Muslim Brotherhood top figure. Some of these scholars and politicians called Morsi a «martyr».
Last week, Mauritania’s former Defense Minister Mohamed Ould Ghazouani said that if elected president of the country he would stop granting Mauritanian citizenship to Sahrawis from Tindouf. Ould Ghazouani’s statement was denounced by the Front which sent a delegation to meet officials from Nouakchott.
On May 22, the United Nations announced the resignation of Horst Kohler from his role as the UN Secretary-General's personal envoy. Since then, Antonio Guterres has sent Morocco and Algeria names of officials that could replace the German diplomat.
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