A number of trucks were trapped Sunday in the Burkina Faso capital of Ouagadougou after a state of emergency imposed by military leaders in Burkina Faso after a coup.
Over 35 trucks transporting goods were stuck in Burkina Faso after the new coup. A dozen others were trapped in Niger and Senegal unable to cross the Burkina Faso borders, sources told Hespress AR.
This situation raised the concern of the Democratic Multimodal Transport and Logistics Organization, which alerted Moroccan political officials of “the repercussions and impact of this unstable situation on the safety and security of professional drivers of international transport of goods, as well as on their vehicles loaded with goods and merchandise.”
The same source called on Moroccan diplomats to urgently intervene to provide physical protection for professional drivers besieged in sub-Saharan African countries and to provide them with basics like food.
The organization warned of the possibility of robbery of Moroccan trucks due to the current security instability in the Republic of Burkina Faso.
The Moroccan embassy in Burkina Faso announced the creation of a special cell to track the current situation, calling on citizens to stay in their homes and to be very careful, stressing that it has been closely following the events taking place in the country since Friday.
The Democratic Multimodal Transport and Logistics Organization pointed out the alarming health condition of some professional drivers, in light of the possibility of exposure to the malaria epidemic due to the climatic conditions in sub-Saharan Africa and the West Sahel.
National Secretary of the Democratic Multimodal Organization for Transport and Logistics, Mustapha Chaoune, said that drivers are stuck in these countries after the closing of all borders after the coup.
Chaoune told Hespress AR that “most drivers have limited food supplies that are only sufficient for a few days, and the same applies to water,” noting that the drivers fear the lack of security in these countries, which may put them at risk.
He continued by saying that “these political events brake the wheel of commercial development between Morocco and Africa, given that more than ninety trucks of goods pass daily through the Guerguerat crossing, transporting consumer goods, vegetables, fruits, equipment, and construction materials to the Sahel region and sub-Saharan Africa.”
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