Twenty-four hours after Kenya’s support at the Moroccan Autonomy Plan for Western Sahara, the Algerian ambassador in Nairobi met the president of the House of Representatives, Moses Wangangula. “Tonight, I had a cordial interview with Se Mahi Boumediene, Ambassador of Algeria to Kenya. We have discussed common bilateral interests and examined the means to strengthen parliamentary diplomacy between our two countries ”, wrote The president of the lower room on the X platform.
Moses WETANGULA is considered to be the main ally of the Polisario. Evidenced, the reportpublished in October 2022, from the South African Center “Institute for Security Studies”, having revealed that the former Minister of Foreign Affairs had convinced President William Ruto to withdraw his tweet, of September 14, 2022, in which he had announced the rupture of diplomatic relations with the “Arab Republic of Democratic Sahrawi (RASD)”.
Wetangula is an influential man in Kenya. He is also the leader of the Ford Kenya party, a member of the Kenya Kwanza coalition who supported Ruto’s candidacy in the presidential elections in August 2022.
A few weeks later meetingof January 26, 2023 in Dakar between the head of government, Aziz Akhannouch, and President Ruto, Moses Wangula went to Algeria Where he had interviews with President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and reaffirmed his support for the Polisario.
A position which he publicly reiterated, in the aftermath of the signing, in November 2023, by African political figures, of “the call of Tangier ”, Applicating the expulsion of the African Union’s “RASD” during a meeting with the Polisario representative in Nairobi. “I assured him of the importance of maintaining the Sahrawi Republic on the agenda” and his “belonging to the African Union”, he had underlined.
