For the first time, Morocco's Ahmed Benhima presided over the Security Council. Turning to the chairman, Ghana's fiery Ambassador Alex Quaison-Sackey cried in an inverted echo of Churchill: "He has been called upon by destiny to preside over the liquidation of the Portuguese Empire."
The statement proved somewhat exaggerated. But if Lisbon's sprawling, 500-year-old African outback wasn't being liquidated last week, it was certainly under siegeĀtogether with its neighbor and partner, South Africa. Having called the Security Council into session, the 32-nation African bloc demanded that 1) Portugal get out of...
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