Dar es Salaam. The Kingdom of Morocco has stated that its pursuit of resolving the Sahara dispute through autonomy demonstrates that decolonisation can be achieved through development-driven sovereignty rather than a perpetual deadlock.
Morocco’s Ambassador to Tanzania, Mr Zakaria El Goumiri, made the remarks in Dar es Salaam on Saturday, November 8, 2025, during a phone interview with The Citizen.
He was speaking as Morocco marked a dual milestone: half a century since the historic Green March of 1975 and seven decades since gaining independence from French and Spanish protectorates in 1956.
Ambassador El Goumiri highlighted the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) recent adoption of Resolution 2797/2025, which, for the first time in a binding text, recognised Morocco’s autonomy proposal as “the only” credible basis for a lasting solution to the Sahara conflict.
“Why is this milestone so significant? For more than half a century, this ‘artificial’ conflict, stemming from colonial withdrawal and regional geopolitics, has impeded full Maghreb integration and diverted Afric
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