The resolution adopted unanimously last Thursday by the UN Security Council on the Moroccan Sahara nipped the Polisario's plans in the bud. Plans that attempted in vain to expand MINURSO's prerogatives to include monitoring human rights in the Southern provinces. This victory, which Morocco recorded thanks to the personal and decisive intervention of HM King Mohammed VI, constituted a bitter setback for the Polisario. Having poorly digested this new disappointment, the latter continues to use every means to sow discord. Thus, the day after said resolution, a demonstration in which a few people took part was organised. And although it only lasted three days, the damage was evident.

Pro-separatists therefore called for the organisation of a large demonstration last Monday, but this call was not followed; only a few groups attempted to demonstrate on the public highway on Al Mamoun Street, Essmara Boulevard, and Dchira Square. After the usual legal warnings, the security forces proceeded to disperse the protesters. That day, no injuries were reported, nor did any arrests take place. Following these events, the police prefect of the Laâyoune wilaya, Abdelbaset Mahtat, presented the toll of the events in Laâyoune. In addition to material damage, 70 police officers were injured, two of whom will undergo surgery. Also, a meeting between the chioukhs of the tribes of the Southern provinces and Sahrawi dignitaries, chaired by the wali of Laâyoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra and governor of the Laâyoune province, Khalil Dkhil, was held on Sunday evening to better examine the situation. It emerged that these incidents were provoked in Laâyoune by minors bribed and orchestrated by the Polisario Front with the aim of destabilising public authority.

The chioukhs also made a point of noting that these acts are isolated and that the situation at present is stable and under control. For Hassana Rguibi, a member of the collective of chioukhs of the tribes present at this meeting, "Morocco has won a victory at the United Nations, under the impetus of HM the King, but we need a stronger national mobilisation." And he added insistently: "We must strengthen the national front to be able to face the plots hatched by the enemies of the Kingdom's territorial integrity."

Let us recall that the conflict in the Sahara is an artificial conflict imposed on Morocco by Algeria. The Polisario, a separatist movement supported by the Algerian authorities, claims the creation of a fake state in the Maghreb. This situation blocks all efforts by the international community for a solution to the conflict based on advanced autonomy within a sovereign Moroccan framework and regional economic and security integration.