A strong sandstorm is sweeping through the southern provinces. Starting in Guelmim before reaching Tan-Tan and Smara, this seasonal phenomenon drastically reduces visibility, disrupting traffic and threatening the health of the most vulnerable inhabitants.
The Polisario Front has claimed the attack against the city of Smara, in the Moroccan Sahara, stating that it has fired several shells on military installations that have caused human and material damage. Information denied by the Moroccan authorities.
Four projectiles were fired on Friday towards the southeastern outskirts of the city of Smara, in the Moroccan Sahara. Is the Polisario behind this new attack?
The construction of the road connecting Es-Smara (southern Morocco) to Bir Moghrein, in Mauritania, via Amgala and Tifariti, is almost completed.
The information disseminated in recent days by certain media, including Bladi.net, reporting on the construction by Morocco of a road connecting the city of Es-smara, in the Sahara, to Mauritania, with a view to opening a new border post in the Amgala region, are not verified.
New explosions were heard on Saturday in desert areas dozens of kilometers from the city of Smara, located about 200 km east of Laâyoune, in the Sahara. Is the Polisario behind these attacks?
An operation was carried out by the police forces in Laâyoune, Smara and Agadir, in collaboration with the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance.
After the attacks carried out south of Aousserd in the Dakhla-Oued Eddahab region and in the city of Es-Semara by the Polisario, an expert in international relations believes that the conflict in the Sahara "will undoubtedly see new developments".
The attack carried out against civilians in Smara in the Moroccan Sahara is a "state terrorism" committed by Algeria against Morocco, said Abdellatif Ouahbi, the Moroccan Minister of Justice, at the 111th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) of the UN which was held on Wednesday and Thursday in Geneva.
The Moroccan army would have destroyed with an armed drone a Grad rocket launcher of the Polisario Front, with which the militiamen of the separatist movement were preparing to carry out an attack in the Moroccan Sahara.
Morocco will react at the right time with "wisdom and determination" to the attacks on Smara, said Nasser Bourita, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, on Wednesday.
Three new shots were reported in the night from Saturday to Sunday, not far from a military base located near the city of Smara, in the Moroccan Sahara. This could be a new attack by the Polisario.