{"id":5122,"date":"2025-05-27T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/?p=5122"},"modified":"2025-05-27T15:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:40:29","slug":"5122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/2025\/05\/27\/5122\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya opens 1st embassy in Morocco, signaling policy shift on disputed Western Sahara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/embassy-768x432-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/embassy-768x432-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: Xinhuanet<\/p>\n<p>\t&#8220;Kenya opened its first embassy in Morocco on Monday as the two countries marked six decades of diplomatic relations, in a move that underscores deepening ties and a significant realignment on the Western Sahara dispute.<\/p>\n<p>\tDuring Mudavadi&#8217;s two-day official visit starting on Monday, the two countries signed five memorandums of understanding (MoUs) aimed at bolstering cooperation in housing and urban development, youth affairs, diplomatic training, trade promotion, and public service capacity building.<\/p>\n<p>\tKenya also officially endorsed Morocco&#8217;s Autonomy Plan as &#8216;the only sustainable approach&#8217; to resolving the Western Sahara dispute, which is a notable policy reversal for Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe announcement marks the culmination of a normalization process that began after Kenyan President William Ruto took office in 2022. Relations between the two nations had been strained for years over Kenya&#8217;s support for the Polisario Front and its recognition of the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), which seeks independence for Western Sahara.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/africa\/20250527\/3f75dfd24cdd417bbf909e157950c6ef\/c.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: Xinhuanet &#8220;Kenya opened its first embassy in Morocco on Monday as the two countries marked six decades of diplomatic relations, in a move that underscores deepening ties and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/2025\/05\/27\/5122\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kenya opens 1st embassy in Morocco, signaling policy shift on disputed Western Sahara<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.10.7","language":"en","enabled_languages":["br","en"],"languages":{"br":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5126,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions\/5126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}