Polisario Front Linked to Major Drug Trafficking Operations on Morocco-Mauritania Border

Two cannabis resin (chira) trafficking operations were successively intercepted by Moroccan security services on the border with Mauritania. According to Al Ahdath Al Maghribia, last week, two individuals in a 4x4 vehicle, transporting one and a half tons of cannabis and a loaded firearm (Kalashnikov), were apprehended by the royal gendarmerie.

Three days later, the Royal Navy had to stop a boat transporting 100 kg of chira and 600 liters of fuel, as it was heading towards the coast of the city of Dakhla. The newspaper questions the destination of the shipments and the perpetrators behind these smuggling operations.

For the newspaper, all the convoys are routed to the buffer zone nicknamed "Kandahar" (in reference to Afghanistan), on the border with Mauritania. The Polisario would be involved in the transportation of these drugs and especially the collection of related taxes, under the complicit gaze, the newspaper suggests, of the Algerian authorities.