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.
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.
The export of phosphate rock from occupied Western Sahara has never been lower than in 2019. This is revealed in the new WSRW report P for Plunder, published today.