The Pentagon is looking at alternative locations to stage its largest exercise in Africa after lawmakers in Washington said Morocco should be removed as the host nation because of its disputed control over the Western Sahara.
At a hearing last week to consider the appointment of Marine Corp Lt. Gen. Michael E. Langley to the top position at U.S. Africa Command, Sen. James Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican, accused the Moroccan government of committing “vicious attacks” on the Sahrawi people in the region.
“Morocco has done nothing to repair the damage that they’ve done to the Sahrawi people after all these years, and they’ve done nothing to show they’re serious about resolving the crisis,” said Mr.