Algeria transforms AU conference into Polisario propaganda platform

Algeria’s regime is doubling down on its hostile agenda against Morocco, scrambling to regain diplomatic ground after a historic UN Security Council resolution endorsed Morocco’s autonomy plan as the sole basis for resolving the Sahara dispute.

Cornered by international legality, Algiers is now attempting to force its way back onto the African stage by exploiting an African Union conference on colonialism.

The latest maneuver unfolded during the International Conference on the Criminalization of Colonialism in Africa, held in Algiers on November 30–December 1.

Officially dedicated to advancing reparations for colonial injustices under the AU’s theme for 2025, the event was hijacked by Algeria to inject its propaganda in favor of its separatist polisrio proxy.

Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf’s speech epitomized this diversion. The speech was rather a diatribe against Morocco that attempts in vain to revive the worn out narrative on a separate entity in Morocco’s south.

Attaf declared his country’s support for separatism in southern Morocco, despite the AU’s explicit decision to leave the Sahara matter exclusively to the UN.

This stance blatantly contradicts Decision 693, adopted in Nouakchott in 2018, which confines the AU’s role to supporting UN-led efforts.

The continental body has long disengaged from the Sahara file, entrusting it to the Security Council, a reality reaffirmed by Resolution 2797 on October 31, 2025, which enshrines Morocco’s autonomy plan under its sovereignty.

Algeria is today in denial as it faces growing alignment behind Morocco’s proposal. It resorts to legal contortions and symbolic gestures.