Maghreb Tension between Morocco and the Polisario Front soars in the extreme south of Western Sahara
US Trump recognizes Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara through an agreement between Israel and Morocco
The
Polisario Front
said this morning that it had attacked the
Guerguerat
Pass
,
a border area in
Western Sahara
that separates
Mauritania
from the territories that the
Moroccan Army has occupied since 1975
in the former Spanish colony.
In a brief statement released by the official
SPA
agency
, he
added that "the Saharawi Army launched four missiles against the illegal gap in Guerguerat and its surroundings. Two reached the
Lawenia
area
while the others reached the northern part of the illegal gap" .
"The offensive of the Saharawi Army, on the southern border of Western Sahara with Mauritania, comes a day after the offensives and
harassment operations carried out by Sahrawi fighters
in southern
Morocco," he
added.
The information has not been confirmed or denied by Morocco, nor could it be verified by independent sources.
WAR TENSION
The situation in the former Spanish colony is of high military tension since last October 13 Moroccan armed forces entered the aforementioned Guerguerat pass to evict a large group of Sahrawis who had camped on the track to interrupt a transit of goods through the area that the Polisario denounces as illegal.
Just 24 hours after the offensive, the general secretary of the Polisario Front and president of the
Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)
, recognized by dozens of countries,
Brahim Ghali,
assured that it was a violation of the ceasefire and considered the signed truce broken in 1991.
A day later, he announced the start of military actions along the wall erected by Morocco in the middle of the desert, which according to the Sahrawis have been repeated daily since then and which Rabat does not even comment on.
Last Thursday, the SADR announced that the Sahrawi Army was preparing to "expand the scope of its military operations, from southern Morocco to southern Western Sahara, to cover all enemy sectors and defenses."
The war tension has been joined in recent weeks by political tension, the result of the decision of the former president of the
United States, Donald Trump,
to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over the former Spanish colony in exchange for Rabat establishing relations with Israel.
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