The polisario's "breaking down" drives the Tindouf camps' youths, despoiled of their rights, to be recruits for Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and trafficking networks of all kinds, said an analysis by the online website "Atlantic-Community.Org", an independent think tank that focuses on transatlantic strategic challenges.

The UN Secretary General's Personal Envoy Christopher Ross announced, on Sunday at the end of the fifth informal talks on the Sahara, that the parties will meet next March for another round to develop "concrete ideas".

Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez said, on Thursday, that there are other alternatives to settling the Sahara conflict rather than referendum.

The network of international African experts sent, on Monday from Dakar, a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to advocate the relevance of the Moroccan autonomy plan for the Sahara and call for a serious commitment to negotiations in order to reach a political solution to the long-standing conflict.

In an exclusive interview, published on Sunday by The Washington Post, Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud highlighted Morocco's proposal to grant autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara, as the "only logical and lasting solution" that is able to end the suffering of the population held captive in the Tindouf camps, southwestern Algeria.