FACT CHECK · IDENTITY & HISTORY
Claim: Moroccans are "fake Africans"
FALSETHE ANSWER
False. Morocco is in Africa and was a founding member of the OAU in 1963. It left in 1984 over Western Sahara and rejoined the African Union on 31 January 2017.
SOURCE
Wikipedia: Member states of the African Union
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