Europe Urges Security Measures as Polisario Threatens Armed Conflict in Western Sahara

The call for the compulsory enlistment of all the Sahrawis from the Tindouf camps, for the taking up of arms, in anticipation of an inevitable resumption of the war against Morocco, is imperative, according to Brahim Ghali, the Polisario leader. This bellicose act, the objective of which is "the expansion of the Polisario’s military deployment", is not as alarming. According to the daily Al Massae, only the photos disseminated through the Polisario’s loudspeakers, showing armed elements in the buffer zone, located at the far south of the Moroccan Sahara, are more apparent than acts of violence.

The same source reports that this call for insurrection is nothing more than targeted provocation that occurs at a time when a delegation from the European Union is on a mission in Nouakchott, to inquire about the reasons and extent of the sporadic blockages that sometimes slow down the flow of goods and freedom of movement at the Moroccan-Mauritanian border.

Faced with the threat, the Europeans’ reaction did not take long. They wished for a rapid Moroccan-Mauritanian coordination to permanently secure the daily commercial and tourist traffic at the El Guerguerat border post. Moreover, the launch of the duplication of the Dakhla-El Guerguerat road will undoubtedly strengthen this post.

As for the Security Council, it will not be long in reacting to the measure of the offense soon, to ensure respect for the inviolability of the buffer zones delimited by the 1991 ceasefire agreements.