President of the Foreign Affairs Commission in the Portuguese parliament on Tuesday described Morocco's initiative to grant autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara, as "very important".

A total of 202 km of roads in the region of Oued-Eddahab-Lagouira were surfaced since early 2008 as part of a maintenance and rehabilitation actions of some sections of the regional road network stretching over 3369 Km

The 15th summit of the Non Aligned Movement (NAM), which ended its mmeting on Thursday in Egypt, confirmed NAM’s positive trend regarding the Sahara issue. Such a progress was initiated by the previous meeting, held in Cuba.

U.S. President Barak Obama stated in a letter on Friday, July 3 to His Majesty King Mohammed VI, that the United States and Morocco share the same values of peace, justice, progress and tolerance.

“They can’t leave the camps ….. there is no way to leave the camps”, this   report given by Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw , during an interview about  their documentary “ Stolen” with Fran Kelly from the Australian national radio ABC ; this documentary tackles the story of Fatim, a sahraoui victim of slavery practices in the Polisario camps on the Algerian soil .