The United Nations Security Council has abolished the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, a move that writer Owei Lakemfa says has made war on the African continent all but inevitable. According to Lakemfa, this decision effectively reverses the peace process that had been in place for the region, leaving a long-standing dispute with no peaceful path forward.
Lakemfa places responsibility squarely on Morocco, which he describes as the engineer of this crisis, with Western Europe and the United States providing the support that made it possible. The UN Security Council, he argues, acted with their connivance, lending institutional weight to what amounts to an abandonment of Western Sahara's people.
The situation is being watched closely across the continent, and the concern is not abstract. When a body as powerful as the UNSC dismantles a peace mechanism rather than strengthening it, the question is not whether the wound will worsen, but how quickly.
Originally published by Premium Times.