From this port, in El Aaiun, Western Sahara, the international phosphate plundering is taken place.
Date of photos are unknown. They were found on the homepages of a Moroccan official homepage, www.laayoune-boujdour.ma, trying to attract foreign investments to Western Sahara, that was occupied in 1975 by Morocco.
Morocco's illegal exports of phosphate rock through a controversial conveyor belt has been targeted by what is claimed to be a bomb.
For over 40 years, a Moroccan state-owned company has exported phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara.
Germany's state-owned development bank will not finance projects in Western Sahara.
As Continental renegotiates its contract with Morocco's national phosphate company, it is still not clear whether the German group intends to limit its operations to Morocco proper or extend them into occupied Western Sahara.