Biden has much to lose
Feb 14, 2021
4 minutes
SHANNON EBRAHIM shannon.ebrahim@inl.co.za
REUTERS
ONE of the first things that President Joe Biden should have done upon entering office is to have reversed former president Donald Trump’s proclamation that the US recognised Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara. It was one of a long list of dangerous foreign policy moves Trump made with grave ramifications for the region, and for US interests.
Not only has Trump increased tension in the region, and made a return to armed conflict between Morocco and Western Sahara a renewed possibility, but he has gone against the policy of the AU, which recognises the Arab Sahrawi Democratic Republic as a sovereign member of the continental body.
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