"The low down on African affairs"

Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has broken his silence on Saharawi President Brahim Ghali’s state visit to South Africa, acknowledging the glamour of the event Ghali flew home with host President Cyril Ramaphosa’s assertion that the coloniaisation of Africa continued so long as Morocco maintained its illegal 47-year occupation of

Illegally occupying Western Sahara in defiance of the United Nations, Morocco is understandably furious about South Africa receiving the President of that country with all the bells and whistles of a Statevisit. President Brahim Ghali is meeting the MPs in Cape Town tonight and tomorrow having been received in Pretoria

With their proximity to Europe, the countries of the Maghreb have become dab hands  at the diplomatic game.. They tend to punch above their weight and are, when they wish to be, African, Arab or even southern European. Their position, just across the Mediterranean, makes them strategically difficult to disregard.

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI skipped Kenyan President William Ruto’s inauguration ceremony in Nairobi this week. He’ll also miss  Angolan President João Lourenço’s inauguration in Luanda tomorrow. Is this because Western Sahara President Brahim Ghali was and will be there? Or is he embarrassed about his envoy being caught lying about

  There are fears that a new wave of xenophobia is building in South Africa. Driving it as movement called Dudula, which is the Zulu word for drive-back. Current hot spots are Alexandra township, were people in poverty live in sight of the salubrious business and residential area of Sandton,