By Kamal Fadel
Independent Australia,  6 January 2021

On December 10, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would recognise Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara in return for it establishing diplomatic relations with Israel.
Western Sahara is a territory considered by the United Nations (UN) as Africa’s last colony, whose people are entitled to the right to self-determination.
Trump’s decision is contrary to what the International Court of Justice concluded in 1975: that Morocco did not have any claim to territorial rights in Western Sahara.(cont….)

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Feb 7, 2021
Sahrawi human rights activists have become singled out for systematic suppression at the hands of Moroccan occupying forces after the outbreak of war last November in Western Sahara, dubbed as Africa’s last colony…
The pro-Western Sahara independence activists, Sultana Khaya and Bachri Ben Talb are an example of what Sahrawis are experiencing in the war-zone of the occupied territory.

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Democracy Now! February 05, 2021

President Donald Trump broke with decades of U.S. foreign policy in the waning days of his administration and recognized Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, a territory the country has occupied since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community. U.S. recognition came as Morocco agreed to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, becoming the fourth Arab nation to do so in recent months…(Amy Goodman interviews Professor Stephen Zunes)

Video of interview with Stephen Zunes