Algiers, August 22, 2025 (SPS) - The crushing defeats of the Moroccan occupation's diplomacy in international forums continue, amid its abject failure to "legitimize" its occupation of Western Sahara. The Makhzen regime received two slaps within a week, one from the SADC group and another from the TICAD 9 summit, in which the Sahrawi Republic is participating under tight security protection against the thuggery of the occupation.
The first slap came from the Southern African Development Community (SADC, 16 member states), after it approved a memorandum of understanding with the Sahrawi Republic on Sunday, clearly and explicitly renewing its support for the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and independence, as stated in the final communiqué of its summit held in Madagascar.
As for the second crushing slap, from which it has not yet recovered, it came from Japan, where the Sahrawi Republic is participating with a high-level delegation in the ninth session of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9), which began its work Wednesday in the city of Yokohama. This forced the Makhzen's mouthpieces to retreat humiliated to their hideouts, after having waged a campaign of falsehoods regarding the exclusion of Sahrawi participation in this important economic gathering.
What truly made the Moroccan regime lose its composure at the TICAD 9 summit was the map published by Japan on the official page of this event on social media platforms, as well as the promotional map for cultural exchange between Japan and some African countries, which shows the international borders of the Sahrawi Republic alongside other countries of the continent. A map circulated by many free Moroccans to expose the fabricated "victories" promoted by the Makhzen.
In a statement to APS, the Sahrawi ambassador to Angola and Namibia, Hamdi Mayara, praised the successive victories of the Sahrawi cause in international platforms and forums, despite the policy of bribes and blackmail pursued by Morocco to obtain illegal "gains," stressing that most African countries refuse to entrench the colonial situation in Western Sahara.
He added: "Just as the Makhzen had not recovered from the first shock on the occasion of the SADC summit, it lost its composure under the impact of the second shock after the participation of the Sahrawi Republic, a founding member of the African Union, in the TICAD 9 summit, despite its attempts to persuade Japan to exclude my country."
Perhaps the image of the tight security protection provided by the Japanese authorities to the high-level Sahrawi delegation to protect it from the "piracy" of the Moroccan occupation, which is stubborn and refuses to recognize the only bright truth, which is that the Sahrawi Republic is an irreversible reality, greatly humiliated the Makhzen regime and revealed the truth of the delusions of its "shameful" diplomacy based on thuggery.
The question remains: If Morocco's "diplomats" assault their Sahrawi counterparts at international gatherings and in front of the world's cameras, as happened last year at the TICAD 8 summit, what is the situation for Sahrawi civilians and human rights activists in the territory imposed by the occupation authorities under a strict military and media blockade, in the absence of an international mechanism to monitor and document human rights violations?
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