Polisario on Thursday issued a statement warning competitors, sponsors, and participants of the Africa Eco Rally, after the publication of the rally’s route that showed that it will pass through Morocco’s southern provinces.
The event’s organization has confirmed the route in June in compliance with Rabat’s authorities.
The rally is expected to start on October 15, with a route aiming to cross Morocco’s desert where there is a ceasefire between the country and Polisario, to reach Mauritania.
The Africa Eco Race has still not responded to the ‘threats’ to respond to any action aimed at undermining the separatist front’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The rally camps are expected to be secured declared the organizers saying that “the countries through which it crosses deploy their security personnel, police or army, to secure not only the camp but also the roads.”
This isn’t the first time that Polisario threatened the rally’s organizers. There has been a precedent to this in 2018 where they attempted to intercept the event but eventually, it was stopped because they ended up caving in under diplomatic pressure coming from the united nations.
Earlier this September, separatist Polisario leaders met UN envoy Staffan De Mistura with the same “self-determination” demands rhetoric.
The envoy’s visit lasted for two days. He found great difficulties in managing their repetitive political demands, despite diplomatic moves in support of a better solution to autonomy, coming from major countries’ capitals such as Washington, Madrid, and Berlin.
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