The future of Africa depends on the emergence of new elites able to meet the challenges of development, said the participants at the 6th International Meeting of the Open University of Dakhla, whose works ended on Friday.

The United States reaffirmed, on Wednesday, its position on the Sahara issue, supporting the autonomy plan proposed by Morocco as "serious, credible and realistic".

The flagrant violations of human rights committed by the Polisario against the populations in the Tindouf camps on the Algerian territory were singled out on Wednesday night at the "Europa" Congress Palace in Vitoria Gasteiz, by the Spanish expert, Ignacio Ortiz Palacio.

Manuel Lezertua Rodriguez, Ombudsman of the Basque Country, condemned, on Tuesday in Vitoria Gasteiz (north), the "extremely serious" crimes committed by polisario torturers against the Sahrawi populations held captive in the Tindouf camps in Algeria.

The Republic of Maldives reiterates its full support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Morocco, including its southern provinces, said, on Friday in Rabat, Maldivian Foreign minister, Abdulla Shahid.