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The United States on Sunday started the "process of establishing" a consulate in contested Western Sahara, after Washington recognised Morocco's sovereignty there in exchange for Rabat normalising ti…
The United States on Sunday started the "process of establishing" a consulate in contested Western Sahara, after Washington recognised Morocco's sovereignty there in exchange for Rabat normalising ties with Israel.
During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump held nothing back when accusing Hillary Clinton of doing “favors” for the Kingdom of Morocco as secretary of state and later getting $28 million for the Clinton Foundation and related nonprofits in return. It was a foreign money scandal that plagued the final weeks of Clinton’s presidential bid – with media reports labeling it a “Moroccan mess” just two days before voters went to the polls.
Now human rights groups are arguing that President Trump’s latest Arab accord is also a sell-off – only this time they say what was relinquished were the human rights of the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara, a 100,000-square-mile territory in northwestern Africa that Morocco and a rebel group, the Polisario Front, have laid claim to for nearly 50 years.