The statement from Pretoria calls on Morocco and the Saharawi liberation movement POLISARIO to observe the ceasefire called by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres during the pandemic.

The hard-hitting South African statement calls Western Sahara Africa’s last case of colonialism.

It points out that the International Court of Justice has ruled that Morocco is an illegal occupying force in the territory abandoned by Spain.

The South African position, says the statement, is driven by its opposition to the occupation, its determination to see decolonisation and its concern for human rights 

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She been attacked by the Gambia, who is leveling the charge, for her silence about alleged atrocities against the Rohingya Muslim minority.

Speaking on the final day of hearings, Aung San Suu Kyi called the 2017 crackdown on on the Rohingya a clearance operation targeting  militants.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner is accused to ignoring widespread allegations of  mass murder, rape and forced deportation of Rohingya.

Thousands were killed and at least 700 000 forced to flee into neighboring Bangladesh.

The court now has to decide whether to impose legally binding measures to protect the Rohingya.

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She says the allegations from the West African state a re incomplete and misleading.

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Aung San Suu Kyi didn’t have to appear at the International Court of Justice.

Indeed she’s risking what remains of her reputation doing so.

She tells the court that Burmese soldiers might have used disproportionate force in dealing with the complex Rohingya crisis.

But she insists a regime that has investigated, prosecuted and punished soldiers and officers guilty of wrongdoing could not be guilty of genocide.

And she insists appropriate action will be taken against civilians guilty of violence.

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High Commissioner Vijaye Lutchmun was speaking at the Mauritius national day reception  in Pretoria.

Maurtian chief envoy Vijaye Lutchmun thanks South Africa and the African Union for supporting  his country’s efforts to have the Chagos archipelago returned.

He called in a colonial vestige.

The International Court of Justice ruled last month that Britain was wrong to remove administration of Chagos from Mauritius in the 60s.

Inhabitants of  Diego Garcia were forced to quit their homes when Britain signed an agreement with the United States to build a military base on the island. 

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Somalia’s ambassador to Nairobi has been expelled and the Mogadishu authorities have withdrawn their envoy to Kenya.

The east African neighbours are arguing about a gas and oil rich triangle of the Indian Ocean. It covers an area of 100 000 square kilometers.

Somalia denies Kenyan claims that the prospecting rights to this triangle were sold at a Somali  investment  conference in London last week.
Kenya’s demanding the Mogadishu authorities withdraw a map show to investors that indicates the disputed piece of Ocean belongs to Somalia.

The matter has to be adjudicated by the International Court of Justice.

Kenya’s lost its case disputing the court’s jurisdiction in the matter

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