The Polisario claims that its army has begun to respond with the required firmness to the military operation launched by Morocco in the buffer zone of Guerguerat .
Faced with Polisario provocations in Guerguarate, the Royal Armed Forces deployed a security cordon in the early hours of Friday in the buffer zone to secure the flow of goods and people. They managed to take control of the situation.
Exasperated by the provocations of the Polisario militias in the buffer zone of Guergarate in the Sahara, Morocco is preparing its response.
Faced with the shortage and high prices of fruits and vegetables imported from Morocco, the Mauritanian government has chartered ships to supply the markets. Prices of these products have risen sharply in recent days.
The elements of the Minurso are preparing to leave the buffer zone towards the Canary Islands. The United Nations would have addressed a request to Spain, in anticipation of a conflict between Morocco and the Polisario .
"The situation in the Guerguerat area can degenerate at any time." For the specialist in military and defense issues, Abderrahmane El Mekkaoui, the acts of provocation by the Polisario violate international conventions, and Morocco is aware of the seriousness of the situation.
"Mr. Lahbib, a member of the Polisario, also the Sahrawi Minister" of Defense accuses Morocco of wanting to destabilize the Guerguerat region and threatens to violate the 1991 ceasefire agreement. The UN is also in his sights.
200 truck drivers, direct victims of the closure of the Guerguerat crossing, have issued a distress call to the United Nations and the authorities of Morocco and Mauritania. The Moroccans have been blocked in Mauritania for more than three weeks.
In a statement published on Monday, the Polisario Front brandishes the threat of resuming arms against Morocco. It says it opposes the intrusion of any "military, security or civilian element" into the Guerguerat buffer zone, located on the border between Mauritania and the Sahara.
A Moroccan delegation, composed of senior officials from the Royal Armed Forces , the Royal Gendarmerie and the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN), arrived on Sunday evening in Dakhla.
The rift is burning again between Morocco and the Polisario over the presence of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) at the El Guerguerat border crossing. A warning has been issued to the kingdom against military escalation and its repercussions.
A convoy of several armored vehicles headed, on Friday, towards the Guerguerat area, on the border between Morocco and Mauritania, where a handful of Polisario militiamen are preventing the circulation of trucks.