AFRICAN COUNTRIES MUST CONDEMN MOROCCO’S CONTINUED OCCUPATION OF WESTERN SAHARA
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor said African countries should join South Africa in stressing that Morocco’s continued illegal occupation of Western Sahara was unacceptable. She was speaking at a memorial service she hosted for the Western Sahara ambassador Radhi Bashir who died last month. Tributes to the late Bashir came from Pandor and the dean of the diplomatic corps, Congolese ambassador Bene M’poko, among others. Pandor said the