{"id":10841,"date":"2024-01-10T13:51:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=10841"},"modified":"2024-01-10T16:40:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T16:40:05","slug":"un-rights-south-africa-morocco-at-loggerheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/un-rights-south-africa-morocco-at-loggerheads\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Rights: South Africa, Morocco at Loggerheads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Africa and Morocco are at loggerheads over the presidency of the United Nations\u2019 top human rights body ahead of a vote on Wednesday, with the former saying Rabat has committed violations in Western Sahara and has no credibility to lead the body.<br \/>\nFor only the second time in the UN Human Rights Council\u2019s 17-year history, it has been left without a president at the start of the year and the issue will go to a secret ballot.<br \/>\nIt is a rare public dispute in the African group whose turn it is to lead the 47-member council. It normally strives to take decisions as a bloc.<br \/>\nDiplomats say the result is too close to call for the annual presidency &#8211; a prestigious but mostly symbolic post that can help turbo-charge the political careers of ambassadors.<br \/>\nMorocco claims sovereignty over Western Sahara, where the Algeria-backed Polisario Front is seeking independence. It has denied allegations of rights abuses against its opponents there.<br \/>\nAs part of a broader strategy, Morocco has been courting countries, including African neighbours, to build up support for its policies for the former Spanish territory.<br \/>\nSouth Africa\u2019s ambassador Mxolisi Nkosi told Reuters that its record of overcoming apartheid and its reputation as a bridge-builder made it a strong candidate.<br \/>\nIn contrast, he said Morocco was the \u201cantithesis of what the council stands for.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cFor a country with all these challenges to aspire to be the face of Human Rights Council and, God forbid if they get elected, this will shatter whatever shred of legitimacy this council ever had.\u201d<br \/>\nMorocco\u2019s diplomatic mission did not respond to a request for comment. Supporters of its candidate Omar Zniber said it had received African Union backing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed South Africa and Morocco are at loggerheads over the presidency of the United Nations\u2019 top human rights body ahead of a vote on Wednesday, with the former saying Rabat has committed violations in Western Sahara and has no credibility to lead the body. For only the second time in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10843,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions\/10843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}