Sahara: DRC opens consular representation in Dakhla

The strong diplomatic dynamic witnessed by the Moroccan Sahara continued this Saturday with the inauguration by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of a consulate general in the city of Dakhla.

The consular representation was inaugurated by Foreign Minister of DRC Marie Tumba Nzeza and her Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) becomes thus the ninth country to set up a consulate in the city in less than a year, after Gambia, Guinea, Djibouti, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea, in addition to the Republic of Haiti, which is the first non-Arab and non-African country to open a consulate in the Moroccan Sahara.

The capital of the Moroccan Sahara Laayoune is witnessing the same dynamic as it now hosts consulates of Comoros, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe, the Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Burundi, Eswatini, Zambia, the UAE, and Bahrain, whose consular representation was inaugurated last Monday Dec.14.

Jordan and the US have also announced plans to set up diplomatic representations in the Moroccan Sahara.