Following the diplomatic setbacks it has received- whether at the UN, the African Union or the EU- Algeria and its puppet the Polisario are desperately looking for fictional victories in the Sahara front. Mauritanian media are speaking of Polisario military exercises aiming at penetrating Morocco’s security wall which kept the Sahara safe for decades and insulated it from the surge in terrorist activities that made Algeria’s desert and large swathes of the Sahel a no-go area. Led by Brahim Ghali, war-monger wanted by the Spanish justice for war crimes, the Polisario militias are losing track. By staging military games east of the berm, the Polisario has in fact shown that it remains a puppet whose strings are pulled by Algeria. By pulling the strings of the Polisario to provoke Morocco into a military response, the Algerian military junta is also seeking to divert attention from its economic and social crisis that bears the seeds of an imminent implosion.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 28, 2017 15:45 UTC