South Africa’s election to the UN Security Council is a chance for the rainbow country to bridge the gap between the Council and the African Union but its support for the separatist SADR entity puts Pretoria at odds with leading African countries, The Globe and Mail, a South African paper, said...
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The seizure of a phosphate cargo from its legitimate owner "OCP Group" is an act of political piracy which ended in a failure, said, Thursday in Rabat, government spokesperson Mustapha El Khalfi.
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Cherry Blossom vessel, carrying a 50,000-ton phosphate cargo, has finally left Port Elizabeth in South Africa, reports French-language online newspaper Telquel Tuesday.
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When the late anti-Apartheid activist Nelson Mandela emerged from prison and became South Africa’s first black president, he carefully steered the country away from the radicalism of the African National Congress's Marxist past and toward a policy which embraced moderation and responsibility in...
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The African National Congress (ANC), the ruling party in South Africa, dispatched Monday three of its senior leaders to Morocco to attend the 4th Crans Montana Forum, which is held March 15 to 20 in Dakhla.
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As was expected, a high court in South Africa delivered a politicized verdict giving ownership of the 50,000-ton Phosphate cargo on board bulk carrier Cherry Blossom to the Polisario separatists.
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In September 2004, upon South AfricaSouth Africa’s decision to recognize Western Sahara as an autonomous and self-determined country, the Kingdom of Morocco recalled its ambassador to Pretoria, engaging the two African giants in a series of implicit hostilities that lasted for over a decade.
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The African National Congress party frowns upon the meeting that brought both King Mohammed VI and Jacob Zuma. To justify his new policy, the South African president referred to the history and legacy of Nelson Mandela and the support he received from Morocco. Details.
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In 1962, Morocco delivered weapons for the ANC fighters. Nelson Mandela had even spent a few months in the Kingdom. Abdelkrim El Khatib played a crucial role in bringing both Hassan II and Mandela together. The two men met, for the second time, in 1994 in Rabat. While in prison for 27 years,...
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Angola, one of the last few countries in the continent to maintain ties with the Polisario separatist militias, is on course to join its voice to the bulk of African countries supporting Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over its southern territories, the Sahara.
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The self proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) has not been invited to attend the upcoming 5th European Union-African Union Summit in Ivory Coast, despite Algerian claims to the contrary.
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South Africa is once again trying to assist the Polisario’s leadership. In August, the country showed support for the Front in a statement delivered before the South African Development Community countries, while in September it managed to mention the Western Sahara conflict during a BRICS’...
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The format of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) has not changed and its meetings remain open only to African states recognized by Japan, which excludes the so-called "SADR", said a source close to the Moroccan delegation that takes part in a TICAD meeting in...
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The Southern African Development Community has announced recently the holding of a «conference» of solidarity with the Polisario Front. A decision that has not been given a date yet.
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Deputy minister in charge of Relations with the Parliament and Civil Society, government spokesman, Mustapha El Khalfi, described, on Thursday, as political with legal and judicial coverage the decision by a south African court to submit the case of the seizure of a ship carrying Moroccan...
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By deciding to hold over for trial the matter of the phosphate cargo vessel “Cherry Blossom,” which was seized in South African waters in April after an unscheduled stop, the South African court has rendered a “transparently political opinion” and committed “a serious abuse of power”, the OCP...
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Morocco has made another stride in its rapprochement with Angola, one of the 13 Anglophone countries in Southern Africa that still recognize the so-called Sahrawi republic “SADR” and support the independence claims of the Algeria-backed Polisario Front.
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Palestinian efforts to win unilateral recognition through international organizations like UNESCO and organizational courts like that of the international soccer federation FIFA have long been a diplomatic source of tension because those organizations’ recognition of Palestinian statehood and...
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The OCP group contests the decision by a south African court to submit the case of the seized "NM Cherry Blossom" Ship for a judgement on substance, noting that this decision totally runs counter the verdict handed by the Panamanian court which stated that this case does not fall under its...
