{"id":68791,"date":"2022-07-05T14:12:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=68791"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:12:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:12:28","slug":"listen-the-africa-report-moroccos-deadly-superiority-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/listen-the-africa-report-moroccos-deadly-superiority-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"[LISTEN] The Africa Report: Morocco\u2019s Deadly Superiority Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Umm Muhammed Umar<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On the African Report, Radio Islam spoke to the head of Africa Desk at the Media Review Network and Dean of the Faculty of Languages at the Somalia National University, Dr Mustafa Mehta.<\/p>\n

Discussing elections at the Pan African Parliament elections, Dr Mehta said that the SADC candidate, Zimbabwe\u2019s Chief Fortune Charumbira won.<\/p>\n

Moving on to the Russia – Ukraine war and Africa, Dr Mehta said that the ramifications of the war were getting worse by the day. He said, \u201cThere is no African country that is not affected especially in economic terms.\u201d He added, \u201cprices are beginning to shoot up – the oil, the petrol, diesel, kerosene, and certain foodstuffs, like grain, cereal and bread.\u201d Dr Mehta said that divisions were emerging amongst African countries, as well, politically. There were those who were not towing the line and those who were independent and exercising their sovereignty. He added that there were many ramifications of the war, for Africa.<\/p>\n

Regarding Moroccan police having fired on African migrants on the Morocco \u2013 Spain border, Dr Mehta said that Morocco was a \u2018problem\u2019. He emphasized that it was incomprehensible that Morocco had been allowed to return to the African Union. He said, \u201cMorocco has a colonial mentality, Moroccans don’t actually consider themselves African.\u201d He added, \u201cThey consider themselves to be superior from the others, with a policy that is very, very destructive. Scores of migrants died last week at the frontier between the Spanish enclave of Melilla in Africa and Morocco. Dr Mehta said that the Moroccan Royal police had killed the African migrants in cold blood, beating them with truncheons and firing on them. He was outraged that in South Africa, the Moroccan Ambassador had denied the massacre altogether. Dr Mehta was emphatic that a march should be held to the Moroccan Embassy in Pretoria to tell them to go back home and that they are not wanted in the AU. He said, \u201cWe don\u2019t want a country in Africa that calls itself African, and behaves European. \u00a0They are actually doing the bidding for Europe.\u201d He asked, \u201cwhy kill those innocent and unarmed civilians? \u00a0Those are economic migrants – all they want is to land a job and do work and buy a little bit of things; send money home. Why don’t you just arrest them and take them back to their countries?\u201d<\/p>\n