Calm Prevails Again at Guerguarat as Before October 21

The buffer zone of Guerguarat is calm, two days after the intervention of the Royal Armed Forces to kick out the militias of the “Polisario”.

As on Saturday, the situation was very calm on Sunday in this no man’s land of 3.8 km which separates the Moroccan and Mauritanian borders, thanks to the security cordon put in place by the Royal Armed Forces to avoid any risk of infiltration into the area by roadblockers from Lahmada.

On Sunday morning, a team of journalists walked through this area without an escort of the Royal Armed Forces, who are nevertheless keeping a close eye if ever the separatists venture there to repeat the same scenario of banditry in which they have been engaged for three weeks.

These reporters witnessed the calm that prevails in the region, while vehicles carrying goods have resumed their activities, after the reopening of the border post and the reestablishment of civil and commercial traffic between Morocco and Mauritania.

Indeed, as soon as the announcement of the reopening of this broder crossing point in both directions was made, Moroccan and foreign truckers, blocked flowwing acts of banditry by the “Polisario” militias, headed for the two Moroccan and Mauritanian border posts to complete the police and customs formalities and cross the borders.

The area still bears traces of the shameful presence of bandits in this area and particularly of Algeria’s involvement in their supply: Packaging of several products made in Algeria (tuna, milk and dates), cans of water, utensils and blankets, everything was set on fire by these militiamen during the FAR operation carried out on Friday morning.

Morocco had indeed launched this operation to defend its rights after having observed for three weeks the greatest restraint in the face of unacceptable provocations from the separatists and after the failure of all attempts to bring back to reason the outlaws of the Tindouf camps.