15 October 2026: the Fourth Committee adopts a text on the Sahara
Draft A/C.4/81/L.4 was adopted by a recorded vote. It rests on resolutions 1754 (2007) and 2797 (2025). The vote tally for this text is not given in the passage used here.
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8 October 2026: the Fourth Committee reopens the Sahara debate
Petitioners speak. Senegal describes an encouraging evolution since resolution 2797 and states its support for the Moroccan autonomy plan.
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The UN recalls the wording of resolution 2797. Some petitioners ask that the autonomy plan be given a chance; others refuse any compromise on self-determination.
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Resolution 2797: the autonomy plan moves to the centre of the talks
On 31 October 2025, the Security Council renewed MINURSO and asked the parties to negotiate from Morocco’s 2007 plan.
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Soufiane El Bakkali, twice Olympic gold
Champion of the 3,000 m steeplechase in Tokyo, he kept the title in Paris in 2024. Morocco has a king of the water jump.
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Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, from Benguerir to Laayoune and Paris
A university turned toward Africa, phosphates, energy and agronomy — with a campus in the southern provinces and a branch in Paris.
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Qatar 2022: the Lions in a World Cup semi-final
Morocco became the first African side, and the first Arab side, to reach a World Cup semi-final.
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Al Boraq, Africa’s first high-speed train
In November 2018, the Tangier–Casablanca line opened. Morocco joined the very small club of high-speed rail.
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Noor Ouarzazate, sunlight turned into a work
At the edge of the desert, the Noor complex made Ouarzazate one of the world’s great concentrated-solar sites.
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Moroccan Jewish memory, in the Kingdom and in the world
The 2011 Constitution names the Hebraic tributary of Moroccan identity. The community is small at home, vast in the diaspora, and it remains Moroccan.
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Tanger Med, the strait turned into a port
Facing Europe, Tanger Med has become one of the Mediterranean’s great container hubs, and Africa’s first.
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6 November 1975: the Green March
At Hassan II’s call, hundreds of thousands of Moroccans walked peacefully into the Sahara. The date is still a national meeting.
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