The reception Morocco accorded the delegations from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger and its acceptance to grant the Sahel states access to the sea has sparked the ire of two powerful regional groupings, which term Rabat’s move as endorsement of dictatorship.
The Movement for Transformation and Reconciliation in Mali (MTRM) and the Tabalé Movement of Indigenous Peoples of the Sahel and Africa have written a strongly worded letter to King Mohammed VI, criticising the April 28, 2025 meeting in Rabat during which the three Sahel states expressed full support for Morocco’s initiative to connect landlocked countries to the Atlantic Ocean.
