The porosity of the polisario to The Unity Movement for Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), which operates in northern Mali, is a "real source of concern" for Spain which has repatriated its humanitarian workers from the Tindouf camps (south-eastern Algeria) due to "serious risks" of hostage-taking, the French speaking weekly, Jeune Afrique, said in its Monday edition.

The chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs, Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid, received on Wednesday August 1st, 2012, at the Council’s headquarters in Rabat, a delegation from several Latin American countries, including one MP and several journalists.

France and Morocco have exceptional relations which transcend the cultural, historical and friendship ties between the two countries, French Interior Minister Manuel Vall said, recalling that HM King Mohammed VI was the first head of state to be received by French President François Hollande at the Elysée Palace.

Senegalese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alioune Badara Cissé reiterated his country's support to the Moroccan autonomy plan in the Sahara for a final resolution to a conflict that has lasted more than three decades, reported the Senegalese newspaper le Soleil in its Wednesday edition.

Tindouf camps in Algeria are one of the major recruitment areas of children and teenagers to make war and commit suicide, wrote Wednesday the Italian daily «il Folglio».