The President of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Mr. Ould Errachid Khalihenna, met Friday in Rabat, with Mr. Philippe Moureaux, Minister of Federal State, Vice-President of the Belgian Socialist Party and Mayor of the municipality of Molenbeek, who is paying a working visit to the Kingdom.

The Parliamentary Morocco-Italian Friendship Group, "Friends of Morocco", said Thursday it positively welcomed the Moroccan initiative to negotiate an autonomy statute for the Sahara. 

A group of young Sahrawis, having recently benefited from family visit exchange, decided to settle permanently in the province of Essmara. 

The work of the economic and social development promotion agency for the southern provinces (APDS) is "very positive," member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), Juan Gabriel Callejon Baena, said here Friday.

A budget of MMAD 2.6 billion has been reserved by the National Office of Drinking Water (ONEP), for the 2009-2012 period, to support the growing needs of southern provinces in drinking water, said Wednesday the Minister of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment, Mrs Amina Benkhadra. 

Aerial view of the city of Smara