The Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations, the ambassador Omar Hilale denounced, before the Security Council in New York the military enlistment of children by armed groups, calling it one of the "most serious" violations of human rights.

The Moroccan minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, Nasser Bourita, on Monday held talks in Budapest with the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Szijjártó.

Switzerland reiterated, Friday, its support to "serious and credible efforts of Morocco aiming at a political solution based on compromise" to the Moroccan Sahara issue, while affirming having taken note, in this sense, of the autonomy initiative presented by the Kingdom.

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).