Two weeks ahead of the 31st African Union summit in Mauritania, Moussa Faki is expected to visit the Polisario. The Chairperson of the African Union Commission is pressured by the Front’s allies to meet Brahim Ghali in Bir Lahlou.
Three weeks before the start of the 31st African Union summit, Moussa Faki Mahamat visits Morocco to discuss the implementation of Resolution 653, adopted July 2017. The AU Chairperson will have to head later to the Tindouf camps.
In a previous article, Yabiladi mentioned that the draft resolution on the Sahara had met some of Morocco’s demands. However, the document calls for relaunching direct negotiations between the Kingdom and the Front.
Serbian Foreign Minister’s comments on the Sahara have placed the Algerian Foreign Ministry on special alert. Abdelkader Messahel went to Belgrade urgently to defend his country’s position on this issue.
Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat is ignoring Morocco’s warnings. After a working visit to Algeria, he announced his intention to present a proposal for the settlement of the Western Sahara conflict.
The Tindouf camps are witnessing a new altercation between Brahim Ghali and his main opponent, Mohamed Lamine El Bouhali.
After the UN Personal Envoy, Horst Kohler submitted his initial observations regarding the situation in the Sahara, the Polisario Front has raised concerns. The closed meeting organized by the UN Security Council has come a few weeks after the UN official visited the region.
During the late seventies, King Hassan II sent a number of diplomatic envoys to the USA to convince the Carter’s administration to hand OV 10 Bronco aircrafts and Cobra helicopters over to Morocco. Despite the sovereign’s endeavors, the 39th president of the United States refused to fulfill the Moroccan request.