WESTERN SAHARA QUESTION CONTINUES TO BOTHER PAN 
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU,LAGOS,NIGERIA
African nations cannot be truly said to be independent if
Western Sahara continues to wallow in self pity at the enslavements they
experience at the hands of Kingdom of Morocco.
At a recent public forum, foremost pan Africanist ,Mr. Chuma
Nwokolo wondered aloud why that nations problems has not being resolved and
called on the participants of the Focus on African nations summit organized by
the Sunbird African Media Limited ,Lagos, Nigeria to pray for the nation.
OUTLOOK OF WESTERN SAHARA IN GLOBAL POLITICS
Since a United Nations-sponsored
ceasefire agreement in 1991, two thirds of the territory (including most of the
Atlantic coastline – the only part of the coast outside the Moroccan Western Sahara Wall is the
extreme south, including the Ras Nouadhibou peninsula)
has been administered by the Moroccan government, with tacit support from
France and the United States, and the remainder by the SADR, backed by Algeria.[8] Internationally,
countries such as Russia have taken a generally ambiguous and neutral
position on each side's claims, and have pressed both parties to agree on a
peaceful resolution. Both Morocco and Polisario have sought to boost their
claims by accumulating formal recognition, essentially from African, Asian, and
Latin American states in the developing world. The Polisario Front has won
formal recognition for SADR from 46 states, and was
extended membership in the African Union.
Morocco has won support for its position from several African governments and
from most of the Muslim world and Arab League.[9] In
both instances, recognitions have, over the past two decades, been extended and
withdrawn according to changing international trends.[citation
needed]
As
of 2017, no other member state of the United Nations has
ever officially recognized Moroccan sovereignty over
parts of Western Sahara.[10][not in
citation given (See discussion.)][11][12]However,
a number of countries have expressed
their support for a future recognition of the Moroccan
annexation of the territory as an autonomous part of the Kingdom.
Overall, the annexation has not garnered as much attention in the international community as many other
disputed annexations (e.g. the Russian annexation of Crimea).[
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