The Sahrawi Republic Resounds in Luanda… and the Makhzen Swallows the Shock of Sitting Face-to-Face with President Brahim Ghali and His Delegation
✍️ BY: Maamar Gani
Algiers – November 2025 – No one could have predicted that Luanda would transform into a stage of such unapologetic exposure, where the narratives engineered in the Makhzen’s backrooms would collapse like autumn leaves under the season’s first cold gust. After half a century of shouting that “the Sahrawi Republic is nothing but a mirage,” the Africa–Europe Summit revealed—coldly, clinically—that the mirage was nothing more than a reflection of Morocco’s own delusion. The truth, meanwhile, walked on two feet, greeted delegations, and took its rightful seat at the very same table as the Moroccan delegation, in a silence reminiscent of someone caught red-handed in a lie.
Luanda became, this time, a stage with no curtains and no escape routes—a scene that slipped out of Moroccan censorship, accustomed as Rabat is to painting one picture for the world and another for its own people. The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic appeared with every attribute of statehood: its president, Brahim Ghali; its flag; its representatives; its official discourse. No noise. No theatricality. Only the weight of a presence that shattered Moroccan myths at their core. The Moroccan delegation, by contrast, was present only by the measure of its absence—a body without a voice, a position without an argument, a silence bearing the unmistakable mark of an unspoken confession that state propaganda does not travel well beyond national borders.
The irony is that the Makhzen had already prepared a “pre-fabricated victory” for its domestic audience even before the summit began. It leaked an early draft of the summit’s communiqué, persuading the public that Europe had granted Morocco a mandate unmatched by any other party. People celebrated, guilty only of trusting institutions whose only mastery lies in producing dust and calling it a paved road. Then the final version appeared—vanishing from Moroccan television with the same ease with which truth vanishes from official discourse. And when the real picture emerged from Luanda, it arrived like a cold slap across a face poised for celebration.
The face-to-face encounter between Morocco and the Sahrawi Republic was no mere protocol. It was the soft yet devastating collapse of a wall built out of straw. The Makhzen, which has fought for decades to prove that “the Sahrawi state does not exist,” suddenly found itself compelled to sit alongside this very “nonexistent” state. A scene harsher than any of its previous diplomatic defeats, and more eloquent than a thousand official communiqués. This was neither TICAD nor BRICS nor a bilateral summit Rabat could muddy with noise. It was a major platform where the African voice rises above all else—where propaganda cannot dictate the colors of the scene.
And because painful truths rarely arrive alone, the Sahrawi presence in Luanda served as a reminder that international recognition is not a post on a Makhzen-operated social network, nor a fabricated news clip filmed with three cameras. It is the cumulative result of legitimacy earned over decades, reinforced by the continuous exercise of sovereignty within the African institutional framework. Morocco, meanwhile, has long attempted to soothe its existential anxiety with media painkillers—until its body could no longer absorb them.
The truth that emerged from Luanda required no lengthy speeches, no symbolic triumphs, no wooden rhetoric. It was enough for the Sahrawi Republic to sit in its rightful seat for the Makhzen’s voice to melt like ice under the sun. It was enough to leave Morocco without its official microphone, even momentarily, for the fragility of its entire narrative to stand exposed—before Africa, before Europe, and most painfully, before its own people, who can no longer afford the luxury of believing cost-free myths.
The era of draft communiqués has ended. The last fortress of illusion has crumbled. Only one truth remained in the hall: there is a state called the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, an established, enduring state recognized by the African Union. A state that attends, participates, signs—while the Makhzen stands at the doorway, reviewing its final bulletins of disinformation, long past expiry.
In Luanda, this was not merely a conference. It was an existential unveiling—a moment of rupture between an international reality indifferent to propaganda and a Moroccan narrative that survives only within its own borders. Between truth and fantasy, Western Sahara appeared in full view, while the Moroccan storyline fell like a stone dropped from above, with no safety net beneath it.
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