After the attacks carried out south of Aousserd in the Dakhla-Oued Eddahab region and in the city of Es-Semara by the Polisario, an expert in international relations believes that the conflict in the Sahara "will undoubtedly see new developments".
Information indicates a new attack south of Aoussred in the Dakhla-Oued Eddahab region. Could the Polisario militiamen be the perpetrators?
The Polisario, protected by Algeria, is intensifying its threats against Morocco. After the attacks in Es-Smara , the separatist movement threatens to target other cities in the Sahara.
The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the leadership of José Manuel Albares, has removed a section dedicated to the Maghreb and the Middle East from its website. Previously, this part included Spain’s commitment to self-determination in the Sahara .
The attack carried out against civilians in Smara in the Moroccan Sahara is a "state terrorism" committed by Algeria against Morocco, said Abdellatif Ouahbi, the Moroccan Minister of Justice, at the 111th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) of the UN which was held on Wednesday and Thursday in Geneva.
The spokesperson for the US State Department, Matthew Miller, reaffirmed Washington’s support for Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara, which is considered "realistic" and "credible".
Algeria, protector of the Polisario, a movement claiming independence for the Sahara, has gathered its former players for a "gala" match in the Tindouf camps, near the border with Morocco.
The Sahara issue risks exacerbating tensions between Morocco and Algeria, an ally of the Polisario. The two countries have not had diplomatic relations since 2021.
The Moroccan army would have destroyed with an armed drone a Grad rocket launcher of the Polisario Front, with which the militiamen of the separatist movement were preparing to carry out an attack in the Moroccan Sahara.
After the explosions that occurred in the city of Smara , in the Sahara at the end of October, the Polisario, protected by Algeria, would be behind the attack on Tamegroute, a small tourist town famous for its pottery and dunes, located about twenty kilometers from Zagora.
Morocco will react at the right time with "wisdom and determination" to the attacks on Smara, said Nasser Bourita, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, on Wednesday.
Mohamed El Ouali Akeik, the highest military chief of the Polisario Front, is currently in the Basque Country in Spain to undergo medical treatment. Unlike the 2021 hospitalization in Spain of Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Sahrawi independence movement, the stay of the military leader does not seem to irritate Morocco.