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Africa: Morocco and South Africa Renew War of Words Over Western Sahara
Daily Maverick, 15 April 2020
Pretoria is not happy with a Moroccan article condemning its 'sclerotic, ideological position' on what it calls 'the last colony on the African continent'. Read more »
South Africa Takes Offence at Morocco's Western Sahara Claims
The South African government has allegedly taken offence to an article published by the Moroccan Press Agency which said that South Africa had been completely isolated during a UN Security Council meeting on the Western Sahara in New York on April 9 because of its "sclerotic ideological position" on the conflict between Morocco and Western Sahara and the latter's quest for independence from Morocco.
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SPS, 13 April 2020
South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a press release Today responding to Moroccan official press agency, MAP, "misleading report on South Africa's and indeed the United… Read more »
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Morocco: Germany Calls On UN Security Council to Take Serious Stand On Issue of Western Sahara
SPS, 12 April 2020
The Federal Republic of Germany called on the UN Security Council to take a serious stand on the issue of Western Sahara, by sending a clear signal on participation in the United… Read more »
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Western Sahara: New African Consulates Cause Trouble for Western Sahara
DW, 31 March 2020
Several African countries have opened diplomatic missions to Morocco in Western Sahara, a disputed area occupied by Rabat. This has been exacerbating the conflict in an already… Read more »
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SPS, 21 February 2020
South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ms. Naledi Pandor, declared that her Government "will continue to urge Morocco to act in honour of UN resolutions… Read more »
InFocus
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The Solidarity Conference by the Southern African Development Community in support of the decolonisation of Western Sahara and the holding of a referendum on self-determination for ... Read more »
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Since Morocco seized its phosphate-rich southern neighbour, the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara, in 1975, Sahrawi activists have resisted Moroccan rule. Sixteen years of ... Read more »
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Southern African countries which back the Sahrawi people's struggle for independence from Morocco held a solidarity conference in Pretoria this week, while Morocco held a rival ... Read more »
