Morocco’s Military Clears Guerguerat Border Crossing, Ousting Polisario Militiamen

"The Polisario will never come back here," said a source close to the royal palace to Jeune Afrique. In his commemorative speech on the 45th anniversary of the Green March, the sovereign had shown his firmness regarding "the unacceptable actions by which (the kingdom’s adversaries) seek to hinder the fluidity of traffic between Morocco and Mauritania."

"We reiterate our categorical rejection of the unacceptable actions by which they seek to hinder the fluidity of traffic between Morocco and Mauritania, to alter the legal and historical status prevailing east of the security wall, or to engage in illegitimate exploitation of the region’s resources," the king declared, convinced that the United Nations and the Minurso will continue to fulfill their duty by ensuring the preservation of the ceasefire in the area.

On Friday, the FAR deployed a security cordon in the buffer zone to secure the flow of goods and people. This military operation was a success. The Polisario militiamen fled.