Kampala (Uganda) 10 October 2025 (SPS) – In a scene reflecting the isolation of the Moroccan regime and the decline of its influence within Arab and African circles, the Makhzen delegation was forced to sit side by side with the delegation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic during the proceedings of the Afro-Arab Youth Congress held in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, after its desperate and failed attempts to prevent Sahrawi participation and undermine it through its usual methods of political and financial pressure and blackmail.
This congress, which was established in 2004 in Khartoum as a framework for cooperation and exchange between Arab and African youth, comes in a regional context characterized by the growing Sahrawi presence in international forums, something that has caused the Moroccan occupation regime discomfort and pushed it once again to resort to its usual methods of political and financial pressure, bribe and blackmail.
Informed diplomatic sources revealed that representatives of the Moroccan regime, in collusion with some African and Arab officials supervising the conference, moved in open coordination to serve the Moroccan agenda aimed at excluding the Sahrawi delegation and silencing its voice within the conference.
The sources added that Morocco, as usual, relied on diplomacy check to incite some organizers against the Sahrawi Republic, exploiting its relations and sources of funding in an attempt to repeat the scenario of last year, in which they and others failed before the firmness of the Sahrawi position and the principled Algerian, Ugandan, and African support for the necessity of respecting the right of the representatives of the Sahrawi Republic to participate.
Although the Ugandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs clearly expressed the necessity of respecting all member states and their participation without discrimination, some parties within the organizing committee of the conference sided with the Moroccan position, ignoring the official directives, in a deviation that lacks transparency and contradicts the principles of joint youth work.
Since the beginning of the month of August, the Sahrawi Embassy, in close coordination with the Algerian Embassy in Kampala and with officials in the Ugandan Foreign Ministry, worked on carrying out a series of contacts and consultations with various partners and African and Arab organizations to confront the exclusion attempts and to affirm the legitimate right of the Sahrawi Republic to representation and participation.
These efforts culminated in success, as the organizing committee in the end welcomed the participation of the Sahrawi delegation as the official representative of a founding state and a member of the African Union, which was considered a victory for Sahrawi diplomacy and recognition of the justice of the Sahrawi cause and its continental and international standing.
The Moroccan delegation tried to physically obstruct the participation in a direct provocation to all participants, only to be confronted by a group of African delegations, especially the Algerian delegation participating in this event, headed by the Algerian ambassador to Uganda, who had been closely aware of the details of the conspiracy since last year, and who expressed his rejection of any tolerance toward Moroccan bullying against any African delegation, especially against a state that is a member of the Union.
After the Moroccan attempt failed, the Sahrawi delegation was able to hold fruitful meetings with youth and diplomatic delegations from various participating countries, during which the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination was reaffirmed, and the colonial practices of the Moroccan occupation delegation and its ongoing violations in the occupied Sahrawi territories were exposed.
The Sahrawi delegation received wide welcome from the participating delegations, as its presence represented confirmation of the international legitimacy of the Sahrawi cause and another success in the popular diplomacy struggle waged by Sahrawi delegations.
At the conclusion of the congress, the participants agreed on the necessity of strengthening cooperation between Arab and African youth within a framework of mutual respect and national sovereignty, away from the logic of exclusion and political money that the Moroccan Makhzen tries to impose in all regional forums.
The Sahrawi Republic was represented at this meeting by the chargé d’affaires at the embassy, Mr. Mohamed Ali. (SPS)
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