Professor Charles Saint-Prot devoted the editorial of the latest edition of the Bulletin of the Centre for Geopolitical Studies (OEG) to the relationship of the Sahara with the turmoil that exists in the region, emphasizing the fact that the solution to the Sahara on the basis of the Moroccan proposal is an absolute necessity to end the role played by Polisario in the maintenance of regional destabilization. 

Polisario recruits fighters in the Tindouf camps (Algeria's south-west) and sends them to Libya in order to frustrate the uprising, said founder of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Religion and Public Policy, Joseph Grieboski.

Morocco welcomed with "satisfaction" the resolution 1979, adopted unanimously Wednesday by the UN Security Council extending for one year the MINURSO mandate, and welcomed the call of the Executive Body for a population census in Tindouf, Algeria.

 A group of U.S. human rights NGOs sent a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban ki-moon on the "precarious" living conditions in the Tindouf camps (Algeria's south-west) and the "vulnerable" situation of the population held against their will in these camps.
 

A group of congressmen have called in a letter addressed to the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for more support for autonomy in the Sahara, proposed by Morocco and for legitimate rights of the people still held hostage by Polisario in Tindouf camps.