Week old news, but another report that the UN has spent 600 million dollars to date on solving the problem caught my attention. Another glowing example of the taxpayer funded UN at work.
Morocco's state media say King Mohammed has asked Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to help mediate in the dispute over Western Sahara. | Because he's done such a bang-up job in his country. |
Morocco annexed the phosphate-rich desert territory 30 years ago after colonial power Spain pulled out. Morocco took the action despite a World Court ruling in favor of autonomy for Western Sahara. | OK, now I see why they picked Bob. He's a expert at taking land that belongs to someone else. |
Fighting Morocco for independence for the region is the Polisario Front, backed by neighboring Algeria. Morocco has rejected a UN-backed peace plan, which would allow the people of Western Sahara determine its future in a referendum. The former mediator, US diplomat James Baker, resigned in June, and his successor has said he would support the UN plan. | "That way when thing's go to hell, we can point a finger at the UN and blame them." |
Suliman Nyang is the director of African Studies at Howard University in Washington, DC. He says the move improves Morocco's standing in Africa because President Mugabe has the credentials within Africa of being a former liberation leader. | Not to mention a brutal thug, that gives you street cred in Africa as well. |
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