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Southern Africa leaders back Western Sahara at ‘historic’ talks
Pretoria, South Africa | AFP | Several southern African leaders on Tuesday threw their support behind Western Sahara, with one calling the disputed territory the “last colony” on the African continent. Also attending is Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni.
President Cyril Ramaphosa, leader of the continental powerhouse South Africa, described the gathering in the South African capital Pretoria as a “historic act of solidarity”.
The two-day meeting, which started on Monday, was called by the 16-nation Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and attended by leaders from nine African countries and ministers from as far away as Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Separately, Morocco hosted ministers from 36 African countries for UN-backed talks on ending the four-decades-old conflict in Western Sahara, a swathe of desert on Africa’s Atlantic coast.
Delegates at the meeting in Marrakesh backed a declaration affirming “the exclusivity of the United Nations as the framework for seeking a mutually acceptable, realistic, pragmatic and lasting political solution to the (Western) Sahara issue.”
In Pretoria, Ramaphosa said: “Gathered here today are men and women of conscience. Your presence here… sends the clearest message that we are with the people of Western Sahara.
“We stand by you, we support you and we will never forget you.”
Morocco, which annexed the territory after Spain withdrew in 1975, considers Western Sahara to be an integral part of the kingdom.
Ramaphosa said “international solidarity” ended South Africa’s brutal apartheid system “and it is international solidarity that will see realised the foremost aspirations of the people of Western Sahara to be independent and free.”
The talks hosted by South Africa’s foreign ministry are pushing for a referendum on the status of Western Sahara.
Namibian President Hage Geingob, the current chair of the SADC bloc, referred to Western Sahara as Africa’s “last colony”.
“The international community should continue to support efforts aimed at resolving once and for all the question of Western Sahara, the last colony on the continent, to hold a free and fair referendum to determine their destiny,” Geingob said.
A second round of UN talks ended Friday near Geneva, with UN envoy Horst Kohler admitting that “many positions are still fundamentally diverging”.
Ambassador Edward M. Gabriel (from the United States) promised the King of Morocco that the United States will give the Western Sahara to Morocco (just like Trump gave the Golan Heights to Israel), if the Morocco government assists Ambassador Gabriel to cover up a very serious American scandal for them (which he did).
This matter goes all the way to before the 911 attacks. My uncle is the Moroccan military General who basically forced the stalemate in the Sahara by waging direct (and successful) warfare against the POLISARIO. I am his nephew who was born in America and I became witness to substantial misconduct which led up to the 911 attacks (and what I witnessed is a huge scandal for Morocco). The King of Morocco turned on me and my uncle to cover up this scandal for the Americans, and in return America promised the King the Western Sahara.
I started leaking documents concerning this scandal here:
https://TheInvestigation.org
If you are unable to access the sites and download the pdf documents, use a proxy company because the United States is illegally blocking my site and the files it contains in certain countries. I am unable to break the scandal myself because the FBI is holding me in America illegally and preventing me from meeting with any government officials to provide the remainder of my evidence supporting my claim. Thank you.