The Moroccan Sahara holds the potential to become a strategic link from Morocco to sub-Saharan Africa, writes Rusif Huseynov, co-founder and director of the Topchubashov Center based in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Separatist entities and uncontrolled territorial areas constitute a source of threat and a hotbed of extremism, underlined, Sunday in Madrid, the Speaker of the House of Advisors, Enaam Mayara, who also chairs the Association of Senates, Shoura and Equivalent Councils of Africa and the Arab World (ASSECAA).

The recruitment of children in Tindouf camps, in Algeria, by the “Polisario” is considered as a war crime, said Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN, ambassador Omar Hilale.

The frivolity of the Algerian regime is at the origin of the status quo delaying the settlement of the artificial conflict over the Moroccan Sahara and aggravates its political and financial crisis, while further isolating it from the people, stressed the writer-journalist, Talaa Saoud Al Atlassi.