Malainin Mohamed Lakhal

Pambazuka News: How can you describe the current situation in Western Sahara?

As usual the Moroccan Kingdom, participating in the Africa-Arab Summit held this week in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, tried to undermine the meeting by putting conditions on Africans, without which Morocco would withdraw from the Summit with its Arab supporters.

King Mohamed VI delivered, from Dakar- Senegal, this November 6 a speech on the occasion of his father’s invasion of Western Sahara.

For the third consecutive time in less than four months, the Moroccan government participated in an event where the Saharawi Republic was fully taking part as an independent State, during the works of the 2nd High Level Meeting of the Africa-EU Energy Partnership.