What future for the self-determination of the Saharawi people?

By Ali El Aallaoui

The Western Sahara conflict is one of the oldest living international conflicts, resulting from unfinished decolonization altered by a Moroccan occupation since 1975. Even though the UN orders Morocco to withdraw from the territories of Western Sahara, King Hassan II in November 1975[1], organized the Green March, with which he invaded Western Sahara in a double strategy, military by a gang of blood and civil on the other hand, to fill the places of Spanish settlers (who withdraw from the territory) without any consent of the Sahrawi people.

You have to know, despite the crucial importance of the question of Western Sahara on the level of the United Nations agenda[2] and at the level of the African Union[3], this question still mortgages the destiny of the Maghreb, and condition the regional stability in the Sahara and Sahel.

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