Sahara : King Mohammed VI sends a letter to the new African Union president

Morocco is preparing to turn the page on Cyril Ramaphosa’s rotating presidency of the African Union. It is the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Félix Antoine Tshisekedi, who will replace the South African president at the next ordinary AU summit, scheduled for early 2021 in Addis Ababa. A position that will allow him to lead the African troika in charge of the Western Sahara question.

On Tuesday, King Mohammed VI sent a letter to Félix Antoine Tshisekedi. The Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs, Mohcine Jazouli, handed the letter to the African president on the same day. 

In November 2019, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita did the same thing, when he arrived in Cairo. He handed to President Abdelfattah Al Sisi, who was appointed to head the African Union at the time, a letter on behalf of King Mohammed VI on the Sahara question.

In a letter sent last week to King Mohammed VI, Félix Antoine Tshisekedi described as «unacceptable» the situation that prevailed in the area of Guerguarate, when pro-Polisario militia blocked the flow of goods and people.

Since its creation in July 2018 at the AU summit in Mauritania, the African troika on the Sahara has met only once, during the February 2019 summit in Addis Ababa.