Pro-Polisario NGO Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) has slammed the municipality of Mogan, located in the southern tip of Gran Canary Island, for purchasing sand from Western Sahara. «The maintenance work on the Mogán beach began on December 2, 2019. (…) Controversially, the municipality had ordered tons of sand from Western Sahara to renovate the tourist spot», wrote the NGO on Wednesday. WRSW, which claims having documented the arrival of the first trucks with sand transported to Mogan from the Arinaga harbor, argues, «the purchase contributes to finance the illegal Moroccan occupation of the former Spanish colony». The same association alleges that the «sand masses had been transported on board the vessel Dura Bulk». For the record, the pro-Polisario NGO's reports comes as similar ones on a phosphate cargo ship in New Zealand emerged in November. Collaborating with a trade union in the country, the two parties threatened to besiege the ship, which was carrying phosphate rocks from OCP's subsidiary in Boucraa, a town in the Sahara.
