Diplomatic Incident: Sheikh Tidiane Gadio's Statement Aggravates Mauritania
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By Mohamed Souleymane, former Secretary General of the Association of Mayors of the North of Mauritania. The incident in Dakar during the presentation of the book » Moroccan Sahara: Geopolitical Issues of a Major Question for Morocco » was not a mere controversy between diplomats. It revealed a difficulty: the one consisting of distinguishing the memory of civilizations from the sovereignty of states. Sheikh Tidiane Gadio is an experienced diplo…
Mr. Gadio ' s recent statements about Mauritania raised further questions, as he knew our country well, and was very familiar with its history and institutions.
The ambassador of Mauritania to Senegal did not at all appreciate the reasoning of the former Senegalese Foreign Minister, Sheikh Tidiane Gadio, on the question of Western Sahara, according to which, in the Senegalese imagination, Morocco is a few kilometers from Senegal. A speech that sounds, at the diplomat of the country of the "Mille Poètes", stationed in Dakar since April 2026, as a negation of the existence of his country. A stroke of bloo…
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