While visits by foreign delegations to the Kingdom's Southern Provinces have been following one another in recent days, certain parties want to take advantage of the situation and push their activism to the limit. On Saturday, 4 May, the city of Laayoune saw a demonstration by separatists coinciding with the visit of a delegation of foreign journalists, which includes six journalists representing different media (Great Britain, Canada, and the USA), as well as the director of programmes at the International Women's Media Foundation, Nadine Hoffman. Several concordant sources report an unprecedented mobilisation of the enemies of territorial integrity and "deliberately provoked incidents aimed at discrediting the issue of territorial integrity". According to the same sources, injuries were reported, particularly among the security forces. These events recall those provoked in Laayoune last week, which had resulted in material damage and 70 injured police officers, two of them seriously.

Furthermore, the said delegation met on Saturday with elected officials and actors from the Laayoune-Boujdour-Sakiat El Hamra region. The latter stressed that the inhabitants of the Southern Provinces are attached to the autonomy proposal as the only possible solution to put an end to the artificial conflict over the Moroccan Sahara. They added that this initiative preserves the rights of the local population, which is not the case for the Moroccans sequestered in the Tindouf camps, whose rights are permanently flouted. As a reminder, several political forces have condemned the desperate attempts of the enemies of the Kingdom's territorial integrity. "This kind of act aims to destabilise the Kingdom's Southern Provinces and hinder the major development projects initiated there," the Popular Movement had stressed in a statement published on Friday. The MP also pointed the finger at "the proposals formulated by the Robert Kennedy Foundation for Justice and Human Rights aimed at obscuring the progress that the Southern Provinces are experiencing in the fields of human rights and human development". And this in light of the incidents deliberately provoked in the Southern Provinces and the plots aimed at discrediting the issue of territorial integrity, the statement continues. In the same spirit, the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS) stressed, on Thursday at the end of a meeting of its political bureau, the need to continue the mobilisation and maintain vigilance to defend the justice of the cause of the Kingdom's territorial integrity through the consolidation of the internal front, and to continue the efforts deployed by official and parallel diplomacy with a view to definitively settling the artificial conflict over the Sahara issue.