Marruecos minimiza los "bombardeos" del Polisario y dice que hay calma en la zona

Morocco assured Sunday that the situation at the border crossing of Gueguerat, between the territory of Western Sahara and Mauritania is "calm and normal", after the Polisario Front announced having attacked the place with four missiles.

The official Moroccan news agency MAP, citing "authorised sources", added that road traffic between Morocco and Mauritania, and to sub-Saharan Africa, "is not interrupted in any way". 

The source affirmed that calm reigns at this border crossing and in the whole of Western Sahara despite "harassment without incident by Polisario militias". 

The note acknowledged that the Guerguerat area has been subjected to "harassment" since November, without giving further details on the extent of what happened yesterday. 

The sources specified that this crossing has been secured by the Moroccan army since last November, and since then the Polisario fighters have been carrying out acts of provocation "in a desperate reaction to this control". 

The sources also indicated that Algerian and pro-independence Polisario propaganda tries to show that Western Sahara has become a "war zone", through fake news, "war communiqués", teletypes and daily reports on "imaginary clashes". 

The official agency of the Polisario SPS reported on Saturday evening that the Saharawi army launched four missiles against "the illegal breach of Guerguerat" and its surroundings. Two hit the Lawenia area while the other two hit the northern part of the border crossing. 

What happened in Guerguerat, in the absence of independent sources of information, seems more serious than other attacks or harassment by the Polisario along the defence wall, as it is the first time in two months that Morocco has had to reply to the military communiqués of the Front, which has issued 72 "war reports" up to yesterday without having received Rabat's attention. 

Political tension in Western Sahara has been rising in recent weeks following former US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Moroccan sovereignty over the former Spanish colony in exchange for Rabat establishing relations with Israel.