Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit reiterated, on Wednesday in Rabat, his country's support for Morocco's initiative to grant autonomy to its Southern provinces, the Sahara.

The announcement of the dismantling by Moroccan security services of a terrorist network linked to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) confirms analysts' fears that the violence that occurred in Laayoune lays bare AQIM's aims in the region.

Secretary General of the Italian Communist Party, Oliviero Diliberto, voiced, on Monday in Rabat, support for Morocco's initiative to grant autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara.

The Kingdom of Morocco proposes an autonomy plan to resolve the question of the Sahara while Polisario still holds positions from the time of the Cold War and adopts maneuvers to perpetuate this regional dispute, writes Peruvian paper " La Razon. "

The involvement of the polisario network in drug trafficking in the Sahel-Saharan region is worrying all the more so because its former soldiers joined Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in the region, wrote weekly newsmagazine "Jeune Afrique" in its latest issue.