- More than three weeks ago, hundreds of Sahrawis are blocking the only commercial access between Morocco and Mauritania. The Polisario Front has thus wished to draw the attention of international actors, denouncing that the UN mission – Minurso – has already been there since 1991, but that this has not taken steps to organise a referendum on self-determination.
The Polisario believes that the Moroccan corridor is being used illegally, since, according to the ceasefire signed in 1991, it is an area that should be used only to protect the ceasefire and not as a step that transports goods of all kinds to Europe. The Polisario has stated that no blood leaks have been recorded on this road in Guerguerat, because it was he himself who withdrew the Sahrawi neighbours who protested there.
On 30 October last, the UN Security Council renewed the mandate of Minurso, although in the text of the resolution it did not even mention the word referendum, leaving Rabat with joy, as has been customary in recent years. The Polisario Front, for its part, has been "very angry" and warned that the Security Council's "lack of action" does not allow it to "magnify" its struggle. In a statement sent to Efe, Morocco has already made three holes in the wall, the longest in the world with more than 220 kilometres of travel.
The Polisario Front has long said that if there are no steps in the organization of the referendum, the risk of returning to the war situation is very high. These days he said that if the Moroccan Army enters the free spaces of the Sahrawi Democratic Arab Republic, it will respond with "the utmost firmness".