Several earth-moving machines were deployed in the area by the province of Aousserd, which manages the region, and by the services of the Ministry of Equipment to clear the 3.8 km track which separates Morocco's and Mauritania's border posts.

Part of this operation, which continued Tuesday, tires, garbage and carcasses of vehicles that were abandoned on site were removed and then taken to the communal pound.

This area, nicknamed "Kandahar" after a famous city of Afghanistan, has become a place where all kinds of trafficking flourished in the past.

This is where traffickers try to sell second-hand cars brought back from West Africa, often with falsified papers and counterfeit license plates.

Faced with the strict controls imposed by Moroccan customs and security services at the El Guerguarat border crossing, traffickers abandoned these vehicles in the desert... Perhaps they were waiting for a better tomorrow!

The machines also removed waste and the remains of tents burned by the road blockers during their escape after the Royal Armed Forces intervened in the area on Friday to restore the flow of goods and people through this crossing and put an end to acts of vandalism by bandits coming from the Lahmada camps.

In a telephone conversation on Monday with the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, HM King Mohammed VI stressed that after the failure of all the laudable attempts by the Secretary-General, the Kingdom of Morocco has shouldered its responsibilities within the framework of its most legitimate right, all the more so because this is not the first time that the "polisario" militias engage in unacceptable actions in this area.

The Sovereign added that the Kingdom of Morocco will continue to take the necessary measures to ensure order and guarantee a safe and fluid movement of people and goods in El Guerguarat, and remains firmly determined to react, with the utmost severity and within the framework of legitimate defense, to any threat to its security and the peace of its citizens.