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 same time, to restore this Kasbah, a symbol of the tribe's weight at the local level and of the ties that have existed over the centuries with the Alaouite Throne, thus refuting the propaganda that Morocco is an intruder coming to occupy a foreign land.

During this ceremony, which was attended by more than 4,000 people and where all the Sahrawi tribes were represented alongside representatives of the populations of the city of Laâyoune, the Izerguiyne proceeded to read a letter that they consider to be one of concord, solidarity and the defence of the country's territorial integrity and national unity.

This attempt to revive the patriotic fibre of the Sahrawis by reminding them of the ties that have always united them with Morocco for centuries was not to the liking of the separatists from within, who went door-to-door in the city of Laâyoune, distributing leaflets denouncing this initiative, calling it feudal and remote-controlled by the Moroccan services.

The organisers believe that these leaflets only consolidated the unity of the participants who came in very large numbers and invite other tribes to do the same to fight against separatism, declares Ayach Duihi, a young Izerguiyne.