The chairman of the Royal Advisory Council on Saharan Affairs, Khalihenna Ould Errachid, met on Friday July 21, 2017 with the president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Brazilian Senate and former President of Brazil, Senator Fernando Collor de Mello, who is visiting Morocco at the head of a major delegation July 19 through 26.

The Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeals in Salé pronounced on Wednesday sentences ranging from two years to life imprisonment in the events related to dismantling the camp of Gdim Izik.

The Steering Committee for the Integrated Program for the Development of the Southern Provinces of the Kingdom will make a field visit to the region to discuss the state of progress of this project and difficulties encountered, said Thursday in Rabat. Head of Government, Mr Saad Eddine El Othmani.

The government council meeting on Thursday adopted two draft laws and draft decree relating to the Moroccan maritime domain, in order to cement Moroccan legal guardianship over its waters and cut the way to all the allegations calling into question the sovereignty of Morocco over its space.

HM King Mohammed VI addressed a speech to the 29th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU), which opened Monday in Addis Ababa.

Here follows the full text of the speech: