Spain will be able to arm its drones and modernize its software, but it will not be able to buy the experience Morocco has already accumulated. After nearly six years of operations, the FAR possess expertise that Madrid is only beginning to build.
A member of the Polisario Front was reportedly killed in an airstrike targeting suspicious movements east of the defense wall, in the Sahara. The operation is attributed to a drone belonging to the Royal Armed Forces (FAR).
Before authorizing the sale of two naval drones to Morocco, the Dutch government examined the risk of them being used in the conflict in the Sahara. The Hague ultimately gave the green light, deeming such a scenario unlikely.
Morocco is no longer relying on a single intermediary to defend its interests in the United States. Three American firms now work simultaneously for Rabat, at a combined cost of 160,000 dollars per month, with missions ranging from Congress to digital communications.
Orange Maroc will remove an advertisement installed on a Spanish motorway. The map of the Kingdom shown on the billboard included the Sahara and did not mark the borders of Ceuta and Melilla, sparking two separate controversies in Spain.
Commissioned by the Swedish Ministry of Defence, a FOI report finds that Morocco now has a “clear military and political advantage” in the Sahara. HIMARS, Apaches and drones have strengthened its capabilities against a Polisario judged incapable of dislodging it by force.
The president of Algeria’s Council of the Nation, Azouz Nasri, launched a fierce attack on Morocco, accusing the “Moroccan Makhzen” of pursuing a project of “settler colonialism” in the region and harboring “expansionist ambitions.”
A bipartisan bill introduced in Washington provides for designating the Polisario Front as a terrorist organization if its alleged cooperation with Iran or its allies is confirmed. Its assets could then be frozen and its leaders subjected to financial and travel restrictions.
The express route Tiznit-Dakhla, named after Donald Trump, is already drawing fierce criticism in Spain. A Spanish media outlet sees it as a diplomatic operation designed to consolidate American support for Morocco on the Sahara .
Pro-Polisario media outlets celebrated too soon. Massad Boulos, special adviser to Donald Trump, categorically denied rumors announcing his removal. The American mediator reaffirmed his total commitment to resolving the Sahara issue .
Facing recent diplomatic setbacks and growing international support for Morocco’s autonomy plan, Brahim Ghali calls for general mobilization. The leader denounces a coordinated offensive aimed at undermining the population’s right to self-determination.
The Polisario Front maintains the dialogue option with Rabat despite the death of one of its senior leaders in a Moroccan strike. A contradictory stance that illustrates the confusion of a movement militarily outmatched and diplomatically isolated.