Morocco is the most stable Arab country with institutions that are there to make sure human rights and the rule of law are in check. While the world is busy with nuclear ambitions, sectarianism, war of ideologies and religion; Morocco is in the middle of all these issues standing firm with the dialogue and prosperity based on mutual respect. What is to be noticed and applauded is that Morocco was never a place of genocide or evil wars such as WWI and WWII. Morocco helped the oppressed many times with its soldiers but it never provoked a mass war. How could a nation that is right in the middle of the world, Europe, Africa, facing the Americas and Middle Eastern by blood, could be exempt from the craziness of greed and corrupt ideologies causing all the wars and conflicts in today’s world? The answer is simple; Morocco and its people love peace and enjoy good friendships.

The neighborhood is tough and getting worse by the day but Morocco has a formula that is working and has been for centuries, the world should pay attention to the Moroccan model in stabilizing a situation that even superpowers can not put a lid on. The extension of our Sahara is experiencing one if the most grave situations ever, the Darfour issue and the implications it folds is a real treat to stability not only in the Sahrarian and Sahel region but also in the whole region of the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and even other parts of the world including the western parts of the Sahara. The proof is Chad; Ndjamena the capital is under fire from rebels suspected to be supported by the Sudanese government and the French are there to defend their interest as they did many times in Chad. The Darfour militia suspected to provoke the tension is also suspected to be supported by the Sudanese government.

The Darfour conflict is also provoked by regional and international interventions to destabilize Sudan, so the lesson is: it is easy to submerge in region in a real chaos if one provoked, it is easy to arm one faction against another and retaliate that way. The Islamic courts faction in Somalia, the war lords of Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritheria are all players in the Somalian tragedy because Ethiopia and Eritheria can not fight directly so they do so by proxy. The anti Arab feeling in Chad is also fueling the Darfour fire and Sudan retaliates by bringing the flame right into Ndjamena. So we have ethnic, religious, tribal and states conflicts all wrapped up in conflicts called Somalia, Chad and Darfour but the real issue that the region is catching fire and this brings us back to Morocco’s role in the region as being the sole country with real vision for the Sahara.

Alcaeda is active in this region, ethnic division is more obvious now than ever, superpowers are watching the region with perplex and anxiety, tension is rising and only a vision like the autonomy within the sovereignty of the country plan, proposed by the King of Morocco, is what could halt this tension from reaching the shores of Europe.

Morocco has the answer to the balkanization of the Sahara, the rise of terrorist groups in the region, the ethnic divisions and the negative foreign interventions. The Sahara conflict with Algeria should be looked at from this perspective, without Morocco’s guarantees in this region; the Darfour, Ndjamena and Somalia are only a few sand dunes away from the Moroccan Sahara. The future of the region lies in grouping it into bigger more stable entities and not dividing it into unstable, unsustainable microscopic, miniature states.

By:Zak________ marocpost