The return of Morocco to the African Union and its recent membership in the pan-African organization’s most important body, the Peace and Security Council, is vindicating the fears of the Polisario separatists and their mentor, Algeria. The separatists and their mentor, Algeria, have long used the Peace and Security Council to undermine Morocco’s sovereignty in the Sahara, using pro-separatist terminology at odds with UN Security Council resolutions, which have never referred to Morocco as an occupant. In the AU’s summit last January, 19 African countries submitted their reservations concerning a report by the said council. Such reports will soon be a thing of the past with Morocco’s membership in the council. After it joined the AU’s supreme decision-making body on peace and security issues, Morocco is set to act as a bulwark against any attempt to derail the Sahara issue from its UN track.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 08, 2018 00:56 UTC