Polisario Forces Launch Missiles Near Morocco-Mauritania Border Zone

"The Sahrawi army launched four missiles towards the illegal breach of Guerguerat and its surroundings," the "Sahrawi" news agency SPS said in a statement, citing a "Sahrawi" military chief. There have been several attacks along the security wall separating the "Sahrawi" fighters from the Moroccan forces in this desert territory, the same source said.

"There were harassment shots near the Guerguerat area, but this did not hit the road, traffic was not disrupted," a senior Moroccan official told AFP. "It is part of a cycle of harassment for more than three months" and "it has been going on for some time, there is a desire to create a war of propaganda, a media war, on the existence of a war in the Sahara," he denounced, before assuring that "the situation is normal".

For its part, the Polisario considers itself "in a state of legitimate defense war" since November 13, 2020. On the instructions of King Mohammed VI, the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) had intervened to rout the Polisario militiamen who had blocked the only road to Mauritania. The FAR elements are still present on the ground, in order to "secure road traffic" on this commercial route leading to sub-Saharan Africa.