After three days of riots: Laâyoune returns to calm

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,…