There is a growing push in Washington to designate the Polisario Front — the independence movement at the forefront of the struggle to end Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara — as a terrorist organisation, reports Ron Guy.
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Known as the last colony of Africa, Western Sahara is the largest country on the United Nations’ decolonisation list waiting for a referendum of self-determination. Australia-Western Sahara solidarity activist Ron Guy spoke with Ambassador Malainin Lakhal, deputy permanent representative of the Sahrawi Republic to Ethiopia and the African Union.
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Mohamed Mayara, a visiting Western Sahara journalist and trade unionist, told a public forum that the Moroccan regime was imposing a “systematic policy of repression”. Jim McIlroy reports.