First Independent Mena Newspaper
The repetitive acts of banditry on the Guerguarat road in recent years mirror widening cracks within the Polisario edifice amid a growing dissent among a disenchanted youth whose ambitions to a dignified life are held hostage by a cold-war minded leadership controlled by Algiers, said Bachir Dkhil a founder of the Polisario front. In multiple […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco and President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani of Mauritania have voiced their shared resolve to consolidate cooperation between the two neighboring countries, to broaden the prospects of this cooperation and expand its scope. This came at a phone call that King Mohammed VI had this Friday with President of […]
Business as usual was restored in the Guerguarat border crossing after it was closed for three weeks by Polisario bandits. The Moroccan TV, Al Oula, showed footage of smooth crossing of heavy trucks in both directions between Morocco and Mauritania. “We thank His Majesty and the Moroccan Armed Forces for restoring peace and reopening this […]
Arab states and the international community have expressed support for Morocco’s actions to restore commercial and civilian traffic on a passage that has been blocked by the Polisario from October 21 to November 13, underlining the legality of these actions. In the Arab world, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, and Jordan, as […]
Morocco sent its army to restore commercial and passenger traffic in the Guerguarat crossing in the UN-monitored buffer zone after all calls by the UN and the international community fell on deaf Polisario ears. Morocco has given ample time for the UN to make the Polisario leave the area and finally decided to act with […]
Mauritanians welcomed the intervention of Morocco to clear the Guerguarat crossing where the Polisario has prevented the flow of commercial and passenger traffic for more than 20 days. Different Mauritania media outlets described the clearing of the crossing as the end of an economic blockade imposed by the Polisario in total disregard for the interest […]
Morocco acted firmly in line with Royal guidelines to clear Guerguarat from the Polisario bandits who have been blocking commercial and passenger traffic since October 21 and secure the area. King Mohammed VI, supreme commander of the Royal Armed Forces, has made it clear in a speech on the occasion of the Green March anniversary […]
The Royal Armed Forces (FAR) set up, on the night of Thursday to Friday, a security cordon in order to secure the flow of goods and people across the Guerguarat buffer zone, linking Morocco to Mauritania, a statement from the General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces said on Friday. After the intervention of the […]
Mauritania has for the first time officially reacted Wednesday to the Polisario’s provocative acts at Guerguarat crossing point as these acts obstruct the traffic of trucks carrying Moroccan produce to Mauritania and beyond to other African countries. The spokesperson for the Mauritanian government, Sidi Ould Salem, affirmed, at the end of the Council of Ministers […]
An official Mauritanian source denied the involvement of the Mauritanian administration in the creation of a so-called parliamentary friendship group with the Polisario separatist entity. Anbaa, a Mauritanian news website, cited an official Mauritanian source saying the so-called parliamentary group was created under the outgoing Mauritanian administration. “The news (about the parliamentary group) was elaborated […]