Brahim Ghali remains entrenched in office although the official 69% vote that last January returned the 74-year-old as Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) president and Polisario Front secretary-general pointed to dissent within the secretive liberation movement...
This fed into an unprecedented diplomatic spat with Morocco when Polisario Front leader Brahim Ghali was invited to the Ticad 8 Japan-Africa conference in Tunis in July...
President Brahim Ghali of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) a member of the African Union attended Ruto's inauguration...
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Vol 63 No 19 |
- ALGERIA
- MAGHREB
Last month Morocco recalled its ambassador from Tunisia after President Kaïs Saïed invited Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic president Brahim Ghali to an Africa-Japan summit (Dispatches 30/8/22 Tokyo promises $30bn to Africa a week after Beijing's debt relief offer)...
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Vol 63 No 18 |
- JAPAN
- AFRICA
After the TICAD opened a regional row threatened to sideline it when Morocco announced would not attend because Tunisia had invited Brahim Ghali the leader of the Polisario Front which has been fighting for the independence of Western Sahara from Rabat for four decades...
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Madrid had also angered Morocco by allowing Polisario leader Brahim Ghali to come to Spain for medical treatment (AC Vol 62 No 12 Spain feels M6's fury)...
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Morocco broke off diplomatic relations with Spain after Polisario Front leader Brahim Ghali received treatment for Covid-19 in a Spanish hospital (AC Vol 62 No 12 Spain feels M6's fury)...
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Last May Morocco recalled its ambassador from Madrid after Spain allowed Polisario Front leader Brahim Ghali to undergo treatment for Covid-19 at a hospital in northern Spain...
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Vol 62 No 12 |
- MOROCCO
- SPAIN
Its success in shaking a stick at Madrid after Polisario Front leader Brahim Ghali travelled to Spain (in an Algerian jet on an Algerian diplomatic passport) to be treated for severe coronavirus was underlined as thousands of troops had to be deployed from the Spanish enclave's garrison...
Polisario leader Brahim Ghali for decades the Sahrawi guerrilla forces' commander before taking over as Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) President after Mohammed Abdelaziz's death in 2016 announced on 14 November a 'resumption of armed struggle in defence of the legitimate rights of our people...
