The North African region is experiencing rapid political changes considering the transformations and challenges facing the world.

The issue of the Moroccan Sahara remains the most significant obstacle to normal relations between the countries of the region. At a time when the Moroccan monarch, King Mohammed VI, announced his country's readiness to open a new chapter with neighboring Algeria, the Algerian regime responded by severing diplomatic relations with Morocco, banning Moroccan flights over Algerian airspace, and later escalating further by imposing visas on Moroccan citizens. Algeria justified these actions by accusing Morocco of normalizing relations with Israel, following the tripartite agreement between the United States, Morocco, and Israel that restored Moroccan-Israeli relations.

In the aftermath of Morocco's diplomatic victories in the Sahara issue—including successive Security Council resolutions supporting the autonomy proposal, growing international support for Morocco’s solution, and the recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over its southern provinces by the United States, France, and Spain—there has been renewed interest in examining the stages of this issue and analyzing perspectives that shed light on a conflict often described as artificial and a legacy of the Cold War.

On this subject, Africapresse.Paris conducted an exclusive interview with Julian Harston, former UN Assistant........

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