HM King Mohammed VI sent a message to the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit, held Monday at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

The first European Business & Kitesurf Summit (B2B Kite Summit) opened Thursday in Dakhla, with the participation of 200 businessmen and representatives of investment funds from all over Europe.

Political disagreement between Morocco and Algeria over the status of the Sahara "remained an impediment to bilateral and regional counterterrorism cooperation in 2017," the US State Department pointed out in its annual Country Reports on Terrorism for the year 2017

Sierra Leone's minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Alie Kabba hailed, Wednesday in Rabat, "the seriousness and credibility" of the Moroccan autonomy initiative as a basis for settling the Sahara dispute.

The United States reiterated, Monday in Washington, that the autonomy plan for the Sahara is "serious", "realistic" and "credible", stressing that it can satisfy the aspirations of the populations of the Sahara "to manage their own affairs in peace and dignity".