Currently touring Morocco, Horst Köhler is still counting on the African Union upcoming summit, to be held soon by Mauritania. Unlike his predecessors, the UN Personal Envoy relies on the pan-African body.
In order to make King Mohammed VI attend the 31st African Union summit, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is relying on a strategy used by Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The latter gave promising results at the Arab League summit in March 2005.
It is hard to believe that during his visit to Rabat, the Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union did not talk to Moroccan officials about the Sahara conflict just three weeks before the Mauritania summit.
Allowing Morocco to be a member of ECOWAS depends on a report. Drafted by a presidential committee, the impact report is to be submitted June in Lomé during the upcoming summit.
The first gathering of the Climate Commission and Blue Fund of Congo Basin was held today in the Republic of Congo. The summit aims at financing blue and green projects in the area.
Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat met with Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz. Their meeting was an opportunity to tackle the Western Sahara conflict.
The next African Union summit to be hosted by Kigali on the 21st of March might lead to a second confrontation between Morocco and the Polisario supporters over the exploitation of natural resources in the Sahara. The Front set the tone of the meeting through a letter sent to Paul Kagame.