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AFRICAN countries may severe economic and diplomatic
ties with Morocco over its continued occupation of Western Sahara
territory.
Rising from a three-day conference in Abuja Wednesday, which drew participants from Algeria, Benin Republic, South Africa, Cameroun, Zambia, the confab resolved to take necessary steps to ensure Morocco speeds up the decolonization of Western Sahara within the shortest possible time.
Aside the economic and diplomatic cut by African countries, the meeting called on the African Union (AU) and its member states to impose economic, military and diplomatic sanctions against Morocco just as it had successfully done with the Apartheid regime in South Africa.
It was also decided that businesses, organisations and labour unions should organise and boycott against companies and multinationals that do business with Morocco in Western Sahara.
Apart from severance of ties with Morocco, the conference also formed an African Solidarity Movement for the Independence of Western Sahara (ASOMWS) to strengthen the resistance towards the decolonisation of Western Sahara.
The movement would be empowered to collaborate with solidarity movements in Europe, Latin America, North and South America and Australia to promote the cause of Saharawi independence.
It is also to establish a Task Force of ASOMWS, which includes Nigeria as chair, Benin Republic representing West Africa, Algeria representing North Africa, Cameroun representing Central Africa, Kenya representing East Africa, and South Africa representing Southern Africa.
The Task Force is responsible for the coordination of all activities of ASOMWS between the two conferences and shall have a secretariat located in Nigeria until the next edition of the conference.
The confab also urged the Security Council of the United Nations to ensure that the referendum, which it was tasked to conduct since 1991 to determine the future of Western Sahara is held without further delay.
Speaking with The Guardian on the resolutions of the meeting, human right lawyer, Femi Falana, lauded the move, saying most of the steps taken are formidable enough to force Morocco into recognising Western Sahara as a sovereign country.
He said: “The resolutions are formidable enough to ensure early independence for Western Sahara. Nigeria did it during the apartheid regime in South Africa when she cut diplomatic ties with the regime. The objective is cut all manners if ties from Morocco. After all, Morocco walked out of the African Union on its own accord.”
Rising from a three-day conference in Abuja Wednesday, which drew participants from Algeria, Benin Republic, South Africa, Cameroun, Zambia, the confab resolved to take necessary steps to ensure Morocco speeds up the decolonization of Western Sahara within the shortest possible time.
Aside the economic and diplomatic cut by African countries, the meeting called on the African Union (AU) and its member states to impose economic, military and diplomatic sanctions against Morocco just as it had successfully done with the Apartheid regime in South Africa.
It was also decided that businesses, organisations and labour unions should organise and boycott against companies and multinationals that do business with Morocco in Western Sahara.
Apart from severance of ties with Morocco, the conference also formed an African Solidarity Movement for the Independence of Western Sahara (ASOMWS) to strengthen the resistance towards the decolonisation of Western Sahara.
The movement would be empowered to collaborate with solidarity movements in Europe, Latin America, North and South America and Australia to promote the cause of Saharawi independence.
It is also to establish a Task Force of ASOMWS, which includes Nigeria as chair, Benin Republic representing West Africa, Algeria representing North Africa, Cameroun representing Central Africa, Kenya representing East Africa, and South Africa representing Southern Africa.
The Task Force is responsible for the coordination of all activities of ASOMWS between the two conferences and shall have a secretariat located in Nigeria until the next edition of the conference.
The confab also urged the Security Council of the United Nations to ensure that the referendum, which it was tasked to conduct since 1991 to determine the future of Western Sahara is held without further delay.
Speaking with The Guardian on the resolutions of the meeting, human right lawyer, Femi Falana, lauded the move, saying most of the steps taken are formidable enough to force Morocco into recognising Western Sahara as a sovereign country.
He said: “The resolutions are formidable enough to ensure early independence for Western Sahara. Nigeria did it during the apartheid regime in South Africa when she cut diplomatic ties with the regime. The objective is cut all manners if ties from Morocco. After all, Morocco walked out of the African Union on its own accord.”
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