The Izerguiyine welcome representatives of the Sahrawi tribes

Built in 1855, the Kasbah of the Izerguiynes served as a rear base and headquarters for members of the tribe during the years of great raids that the Saharan zone of Oued Noun to the current Azawad had known. It had welcomed many resistors to the European invaders who were establishing their trading posts along the coast. In 1945, the region experienced heavy flooding which destroyed this Kasbah located about forty kilometres north of Laâyoune. The Spanish, who had founded the village of Daoura, named after the oasis where the Kasbah was located, in an attempt to make people forget its existence, would have suffered another failure through this ceremony.The Kasbah, long forgotten, was not heard of again until the day when the various components of the tribe decided to restore the unity of the tribe, whose elements were dispersed for political and economic reasons. They decided, at the s…