The European Union has contacted the two neighboring countries about the military tensions triggered by the blockade of Guerguerate.
The opening of diplomatic representations in the Sahara has weakened the argument of the Polisario and Algeria, which claim that no country recognizers Morocco’s sovereignty over the territory.
Extracts from the 2013 report of the General Directorate of External Security of France revealed that Algeria had encouraged the Mokhtar Belmokhtar terrorist group to carry out attacks against Moroccan interests in Western Sahara.
During the 71st session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Program, Algeria rejected Morocco’s calls for a population census in the Tindouf camps.
Although Algeria, with the support of France, succeeded in 2014 and 2015 in excluding Morocco from mediation in Mali, every movement from Rabat to Bamako is perceived as «interference». Local media have accused Morocco of orchestrating a campaign against a «supposed» presence of Algerian soldiers in Mali.