Between Friday evening and Saturday, September 26, several Mauritanian media reported that the Polisario plans to settle in the buffer zone between Morocco and Mauritania. Bad news for commercial traffic in the region, which could experience many inconveniences in the event of a blockage of the border crossing.
The French motorhome enthusiasts who had been stranded in Mauritania for more than three months due to the closure of the Moroccan border have finally been able to return to their country.
Around fifty sub-Saharan migrants have perished in the sinking of two boats. The search continues to find any possible survivors.
The Moroccan army has turned back 68 Sub-Saharans, including 32 Senegalese, at the border crossing between Morocco and Mauritania, thus causing tensions.
African and European countries such as Algeria, Mauritania, France and Germany have imported protective masks from Morocco in these times of covid-19.
A young Moroccan national, residing in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, was the victim of a knife attack on Eid al-Fitr day. Two men inflicted several fatal knife blows on him before abandoning his body in the street.
In total, 105 Senegalese transporters are stuck in Dakhla in the middle of the desert in the south of the Sahara due to the closure of borders by the Mauritanian authorities.
In the Tindouf camps, it is said that there is a mass escape. Massive movements of Sahrawis towards the north of Mauritania have been observed recently. The wilayas of Tiris Zemmour and Adrar would be the final destinations of the latter, according to certain Mauritanian media.
Moroccan exporters can export onions and potatoes to West African countries. Suspended in the meantime due to covid-19 and fear of shortages, exports have resumed.
The Mauritanian Ministry of Commerce and Tourism, despite the measures taken to limit the spread of the coronavirus, indicated on Thursday that "all facilities have been granted to Moroccan truck drivers." The aim is to allow them to ensure "the supply of the local market with goods and foodstuffs under good conditions".
There are about a hundred Senegalese currently stranded in Morocco, more precisely in Dakhla, due to the closure of borders. They are calling on the Senegalese authorities to work for their repatriation.
Morocco has never cured five coronavirus cases thanks to chloroquine, according to information reported by Le Monde.