UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres affirmed that the Sahara was peacefully decolonized in 1975, when the Polisario was still unknown. Actually, the Polisario is an artefact whose advent came after the decolonization of the Sahara. He said in this connection that that the Sahara was decolonized in 1975 following a tripartite agreement between Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania. At the time when the Sahara was peacefully decolonized in 1975 from the Spanish Protectorate, the SADR (self-proclaimed by the Polisario) did not exist, he explained. It was only after this decolonization that the world began to hear about the SADR, he said, insisting that Spain handed the Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 26, 2023 03:11 UTC