Two months ago, Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces launched an operation in Guerguerate to free the border crossing. No international body, including the Security Council or the African Union, has condemned it. The situation on the ground is calm and the process of opening consulates is continuing.
The Algerian authorities are working hard on the next African Union summit. The country's Minister of Foreign Affairs has been on a tour to countries in Southern Africa, to avoid any potential exclusion of «SADR» from the continental organization.
Brahim Ghali’s recent absence from the political scene is unexpected. The secretary general of the Polisario, visibly overwhelmed by events, has chosen to remain silent while awaiting the inauguration of Joe Biden.
In February 1985, the Polisario Front guerilla shot down a German survey-and-research airplane on its way home after an Antarctica expedition.