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Western Sahara: Morocco declares a national holiday following the UN resolution

Auteur: AFP

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Sahara occidental: le Maroc décrète une fête nationale après la résolution de l'ONU

King Mohammed VI of Morocco has decreed that October 31 will be a new national holiday, the palace announced Tuesday, a few days after a UN vote supporting Morocco's autonomy plan for the disputed territory of Western Sahara.

The king named this celebration "Aid Al Wahda" (Festival of Unity), in reference to the "national unity and territorial integrity" of the country, the palace added in a statement relayed by the official Moroccan agency MAP.

This celebration will be "unifying for the expression of attachment to the sacred values" of the kingdom and "to its legitimate rights", the statement specifies.

This is the first time Mohammed VI has established a new national holiday since his accession to the throne in 1999.

Western Sahara, a Spanish colony until 1975, is controlled mostly by Morocco but is considered a "non-self-governing" territory by the United Nations.

A conflict has pitted Rabat against the Polisario Front independence movement, supported by Algiers, for half a century.

Until then, the UN Security Council had been urging Morocco, Polisario, Algeria and Mauritania to resume negotiations - which had been interrupted since 2019 - to reach a "workable, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution".

But at the initiative of the Americans, who are in charge of this issue at the Security Council, a resolution adopted last Friday asks the parties to discuss on the basis of the autonomy plan, considering it to be the "most feasible" solution.

The plan, presented by Rabat in 2007, provides for autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty for this vast desert territory.

Auteur: AFP
Publié le: Mardi 04 Novembre 2025

Commentaires (5)

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    KALKULART il y a 1 jour

    Le sahara occidental, c’est le gaza du Maghreb.
    Sauf que ce sont des peuples de la périphérie selon les configurations ethno religio raciales de certains soit disant grands penseurs du nouvel ordre mondial

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    Mouhamed il y a 1 jour

    Longue vie à. sa majesté le rois Mohamed 6 son rôle en Afrique noir est à louer banque finance commerce échange business
    tout le contraire de l'Algérie et la Mauritanie qui sont les complices de l'otan dans le soutien aux groupes armés terroristes criminels qui sèment la mort la désolation et les pénuries dans le sahel honte à l'Algérie et à la Mauritanie

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    Mamadou il y a 1 jour

    va cuver tes medocs

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    anonym il y a 22 heures

    Mais il fallait associer le Senegal et le Mali dans ces negotiations vu que la route transsaharienne qui relie l'Europe a l'Afrique via le Maroc,debouche sur ces 2 pays.Surtout le lien entr le Senegal et le Maroc

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    Le futuriste il y a 15 heures

    Futur pays juifs futur israël ça c'est sûr

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