10 Questions
True or false:The Polisario Front is a pro-Moroccan separatist movement.
False
True or false: The Moroccan army launched a military operation in Guerguerat to denounce Polisario's provocations.
True
True or false: The Sahrawi Foreign Ministry called the Moroccan army's operation an "aggression".
True
True or false: The conflict in Western Sahara has been ongoing for several months.
False
True or false: The UN classifies Western Sahara as a self-governing territory.
False
True or false: Morocco controls more than half of Western Sahara.
False
True or false: The Polisario Front threatened to end the ceasefire agreement with Algeria.
False
True or false: Negotiations involving the UN, Morocco, the Polisario Front, Algeria, and Mauritania have been suspended for several months.
True
True or false: The military operation in Guerguerat aims to restore civil and commercial free movement on the road leading to Mali.
False
True or false: Around 100 truck drivers have been stuck at the border crossing for about three weeks due to the conflict.
False
Study Notes
- The Polisario Front, a separatist movement supported by Algeria, is responding to a military operation initiated by the Moroccan army in the buffer zone of Guerguerat near Mauritania.
- The Sahrawi Foreign Ministry called it an "aggression" and stated that Sahrawi troops are in a legitimate defense situation and are responding to Moroccan troops.
- The Moroccan army launched the military operation in Guerguerat, denouncing "Polisario's provocations" in Western Sahara, an area with an undefined status.
- The operation aims to "put an end to the blockade" and "restore civil and commercial free movement" on the road leading to Mauritania.
- Around 200 truck drivers have been stuck at the border crossing for about three weeks due to the conflict.
- The Polisario Front threatened to end the ceasefire agreement with Morocco if it "introduces" troops or civilians into the Guerguerat buffer zone.
- The status of Western Sahara has been a decades-long conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front supported by Algeria.
- The UN classifies Western Sahara as a "non-self-governing territory" due to the lack of a definitive settlement.
- Morocco controls more than two-thirds of the vast desert territory in the western part along the Atlantic Ocean.
- Negotiations involving the UN, Morocco, the Polisario Front, Algeria, and Mauritania have been suspended for several months.
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