The Regional Investment Center of the Laayoune Boujdour Sakia El Hamra Region, said the Regional Investment Committee has approved during the first six months of 2009, four investment projects with a value MAD 776 200 000.

The dispute over the Sahara issue undermines the regional economic integration and its persistence threatens security and stability in sub-Saharan Africa, Zhang Ming, Director General of African Department at the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said on Friday in Rabat.

Interior Minister, Chakib Benmoussa said separatists' instrumentalization of human rights in Sahara is a mere reaction to the international community's endorsement of Morocco's initiative to grant a substantial autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara.

Several infrastructure projects to enhance the socio-economic services have been launched in the province of Boujdour, on the occasion of the celebration of the anniversary of the Revolution of the King and People and the Youth Day.

The international human rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch (HRW), voiced concern over the situation in the Tindouf camps (south-western Algeria), an area that organization described as "isolated".