Morocco and Mauritania to Merge Border Posts at Guerguerat Crossing

Moroccan and Mauritanian citizens will no longer have to cross the small distance of more than 3.4 km formerly called Kandahar, between the Guerguerat border crossing in Morocco and the border crossing with Mauritania, reports Maghreb Intelligence. The two countries are working to establish a single border post instead of two. Work has already begun to better secure the area. Upstream, Rabat and Nouakchott have had fruitful exchanges, with the participation of the parties and services concerned.

In December, Morocco had intervened militarily in the buffer zone of Guergarate to put an end to the situation of blockage generated by the actions of the Polisario and restore free civil and commercial circulation. A public police operation had been carried out towards the end of 2016 to clean up the area, which was plagued by all kinds of trafficking.

The authorities of the Dakhla region had paved more than 2 kilometers of a road strewn with pitfalls. It was difficult for vehicles to use this passage, the only land link between Morocco and other African countries, but also between Europe and Africa.