Trade has picked up on a contested road in Western Sahara on Morocco’s border with Mauritania after tensions eased between troops and separatists, officials and truck drivers said Wednesday. Moroccan television said truck drivers were no longer being deterred by the presence of armed Polisario Front separatists who had been patrolling the road. “Their number … Read more
Polisario separatists have dismissed as “window dressing” Morocco’s announcement of a pullback from a zone of the contested Western Sahara that has raised tensions with their Algiers-backed movement. The foreign ministry in Rabat said Sunday that Morocco will “proceed from today with a unilateral withdrawal from the (Guerguerat) zone,” in what it said was a … Read more
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has called on the United Nations to take “urgent measures” following months of tensions with the Polisario independence movement in the disputed Western Sahara region. The king talked with U. N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, denouncing the Polisario Front, which for decades has sought self-determination for the desert region, according to … Read more