Morocco is a "continental and an essential actor" in the stabilization of the Sahelo-Saharan region, said Mustapha Faty, doctor of legal sciences, Professor at the University of Nouakchott Al Asria and researcher on security and stability in the Maghreb and the Sahel during the citizen-run show “Sahara Debate”.

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has just made public its decision on the complaint by opponent of the polisario leadership El Fadel Breica, against the Algerian state, for kidnapping, torture, captivity and illegal detention for more than four months, on the Algerian territory by the Polisario militias and the Algerian security services, due to his activism for the defense of human rights of the populations in the Tindouf camps, more particularly his participation in a sit-in in front of the Algerian embassy in Madrid to demand shedding light on the fate of his cousin El Khalil Ahmed Braih, missing since his abduction in January 2009, in Algiers by the Algerian intelligence services.

The presidents of the Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra and Dakhla-Oued Eddahab regions, Sidi Hamdi Oued Errachid and Yenja El Khattat, denounced the propaganda by Algeria and the "Polisario" to try to deprive the populations of the two regions of the benefits of development, stressing that Algeria must be questioned about its policy of diversion and disinformation aiming to divert attention from the tragedy of the people in captivity in Tindouf.

Belgian federal Member of Parliament and former Member of the European Parliament Hugues Bayet stated that Morocco has turned its Southern Provinces into a "hub of growth and development" since their recovery in 1975.

A group made up of several countries reiterated on Tuesday, before the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, its unequivocal support for the territorial integrity of Morocco and for the serious efforts made by the Kingdom for the settlement of the artificial conflict over the Moroccan Sahara.