Morocco Bolsters Auxiliary Forces with New Equipment Amid Rising Tensions in Western Sahara

A delegation of high-ranking FA officers visited the barracks and advanced posts to replace the dilapidated equipment, including weapons, vehicles and intervention equipment, with new ones, reports Maghreb Intelligence. The operation took place in the command of the North zone (El Jadida Tanger) and that of the South zone (Western Sahara), led respectively by Brigadier General Khaled Jabrane and Colonel Major Mustapha Hdioued.

The FA corps has 45,000 men and is under the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior and the Royal Armed Forces (FAR). Some are deployed in administrations to ensure their security under the orders of the police (in urban areas) or the gendarmerie (in rural areas); while others are deployed in barracks throughout the territory, with the main mission of rapid intervention for the maintenance of order, under the orders of the territorial administrations, the water and forests brigade, civil protection, Moroccan customs and the royal armed forces. The FA participated in the fighting between the FAR and the Polisario in the Sahara.