Western Sahara Peace Deal: Morocco-Algeria Talks Could Transform North Africa

For decades, the Western Sahara conflict has paralyzed any prospect of integration in the Maghreb, Le Point analyzes. Borders are closed, diplomatic relations have been severed, and the entire region is paying the economic and social price of this head-on confrontation between Rabat and Algiers. Yet, an unprecedented dynamic now appears to be taking shape in the Spanish capital. Far from official tensions, these discreet discussions are fueled by a palpable sense of collective fatigue. Populations, which live without animosity, as well as foreign chancelleries, aspire to definitively close this chapter. Even within the Tindouf camps in Algeria, ideological fervor is fading: the young Sahrawi generation is turning away from the armed struggles of the past to demand a future focused on employment, freedom, and stability.

Western Sahara autonomy plan: the conditions for an unprecedented regional peace agreement

Buoyed by a recent and decisive victory at the UN Security Council, which overwhelmingly endorsed its autonomy plan in late October 2025, Morocco is approaching this historic turning point with a major diplomatic advantage. If a bilateral agreement were to be sealed, the shockwave would be comparable to the fall of the Berlin Wall for the continent, the magazine writes. This epilogue would give rise to a unified bloc of one hundred million inhabitants, capable of defending its interests with one voice before major global powers such as China, the United States, or Russia, while establishing itself as an essential economic and industrial partner for the European Union.

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For this hope for peace to become reality, the success of these talks rests on a demanding but unavoidable political triptych. Rabat will have to show openness and restraint in its demands to facilitate the integration of all parties. At the same time, the Algerian regime will have to renounce its historic and financial support for the Polisario Front. This dual concession would naturally push the independence movement to accept its own dissolution, thereby turning the page on division in favor of a Maghreb finally united and master of its destiny.