SPS 18/07/2021 - 22:15 London, 18 July 2021 (SPS) - Morocco is to dig 2,400 square meters of soil in occupied Western Sahara, as part of a mineral exploration, warned the International Observatory Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW), recalling that Western Sahara is under foreign illegal occupation by Morocco, and the latter has no right under international law to carry out such exploration work. “The Moroccan government's National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM) has issued a tender document on its website revealing a plan to carry out mineral exploration in Western Sahara,” said WSRW in a report released on its website. “The tender invites for digging 2,400 square meters of soil, in the shape of 800 meters of trenches, each 3 meters deep and one meter wide,” said the source.