According to consistent sources, the «Commander of the Sixth Military Region» in the Polisario militia, Mustafa Ould Mohammed Laroussi, was killed on Thursday in a drone strike carried out by the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces near the Mahbes area. The same strike also resulted in the death of another Polisario member, Ouba Wambark Ould Add, as reported by social media pages affiliated with the separatist front. In a related development, the First Secretary of the «Sahrawis for Peace» movement, Hajj Ahmed Barikla, sent a message on Thursday to the UN envoy to Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, urging him to intervene to «stop the senseless war that the Sahrawis are paying the price for». In his message, Hajj Ahmed wrote: «We cannot abandon the belief in the possibility of achieving peace, nor accept that war is an inevitable fate. Therefore, I will not cease to appeal to your moral authority for urgent intervention, to prevent an increase in the number of widows and orphans in Western Sahara as a result of a futile war».
