First Independent Mena Newspaper
In its most recent diplomatic blunder, the Algerian foreign ministry called Morocco to leave its southernmost tip of Guerguarat as a condition for finding a “political solution” to a conflict that it has created and perpetuated in the Sahara. The statement was made by Algeria’s foreign ministry in reaction to the official appointment of Staffan […]
The UN has laid bare the claims of Polisario regarding tensions in the Sahara and exposed to the world the lies of the Algeria-backed separatists. The UN mission in the Sahara “continues to receive unconfirmed reports of sporadic firing across the berm. The Mission continues to monitor the situation throughout the Territory, including in Guerguarat,” […]
Business as usual in Guerguarat where international traffic has resumed unhindered between Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa since the Royal Armed forces cleared on November 13,2020 the border crossing which had been closed by Polisario militiamen for three weeks. Polisario and Algerian media however continue to fantasize about an imaginary war claiming to have attacked the […]
The situation in Guerguarat crossing point is calm and normal, authorized sources said Sunday morning, adding that road traffic between Morocco and Mauritania, and beyond to sub-Saharan Africa, “is not disrupted in any way”. Despite the uneventful harassment by “Polisario” militias, the situation in Guerguarat, as in the whole of the Moroccan Sahara, is calm […]
Senior officials of the Moroccan and Mauritanian armies held their second joint committee in Nouakchott focusing on the means to reinforce cooperation to secure their shared borders. The meeting comes after a three-day visit by Moroccan chief of staff Abdelfattah Louarak to Mauritania leading a senior level delegation. The importance of this meeting also stems […]
Cape Verde expressed its support to Morocco in its “legitimate” decision to intervene peacefully to restore the movement of goods and people in the area of Guerguarat, in the Moroccan Sahara. “Cape Verde, which maintains excellent relations of friendship and cooperation with the Kingdom of Morocco and works for the promotion of peace, respect […]
Heads of major Moroccan political parties visited on Friday the Southern border post of Guerguarat, near Mauritania, after the action carried out by the Moroccan army to secure and restore the normal traffic flow which was obstructed for three weeks by the Algeria-backed Polisario mercenaries. In a joint statement, chiefs of Justice and Development Party […]
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 […]