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Morocco’s return a ‘setback for Sahrawi independence’
THE South African Communist Party (SACP) and ANC condemned the readmission of Morocco to the African Union (AU) yesterday.
The ruling alliance partners spoke out a day after the AU summit in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa voted to approve the kingdom’s application.
Rabat left the AU’s predecessor, the Organisation for African Unity, in 1984 after the bloc recognised Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara’s (the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic’s) claim to independence.
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