Guys, I am working on this year's track for Morocco. As You can see I am thinking of two possible ways to cross from Smara to Laayoune. The yellow one is quite straightforward, well known, frequent ridden, still a wonderful ride. The part of dark grey one is a track I once found on wikiloc, it is meandering through rough hamada planes.
The question is, as it is known as "useful triangle" is it a region where one should be afraid of landmines? I know Western Sahara is a landmines region, for sure south regions down from Smara, but I doubt if area west from Smara still is? On satellite photos there are numerous tracks visible...

Brief history: "By 1982, the POLI-
SARIO had managed to win the war
against Mauritania in the south and
had the effective control of most of
the territory initially occupied by
Morocco. Morocco only had com-
plete control over the so-called “use-
ful triangle”, where the phosphate
mines are located. It was then that
Morocco designed a new strategy to
extend its control over a larger part
of the territory. Between 1982 and
1987, the Moroccan armed forces
erected six military walls: more than
2700 kilometres of defensive struc-
tures, between three and four me-
tres high. They are composed of
sand and stones and a system of
anti-tank trenches, and are defended
by over 130,000 soldiers stationed all
along the wall. A further defensive
Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos GEES element is the existence of mine-
fields positioned in front of the
walls for their entire length."

This allows me thinking that useful triangle may be free of landmines. What is your knowldege?

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