Algeria, "new gas and oil Eldorado," relies on "the rivalries between the superpowers, which fight over its favors" to thwart the Moroccan plan to settle the Sahara issue, wrote Thursday the French daily "Libération."

In an article entitled "the Sahara: Mohammed VI proposes autonomy," the paper notes that "the Algerian press virulence" against the visit king Mohammed VI paid to the southern provinces suggests "Algeria's categorical refusal" to the settlement plan proposed by the sovereign regarding autonomy within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty. 
 
During this six-day tour, king Mohammed VI reaffirmed that the Sahara would remain Moroccan and that Morocco "will give up no grain of its sand" and re-launched the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), the paper recalls.
 
This body "was completely renewed" and is now composed of 141 members, including tribes chiefs and representatives of youth movements and civil society -notably women, it says, noting that the sovereign invited them to transform this council into “an institution of development and mobilization of the citizens and a proposal force.”
 
The daily also notes the sovereign’s inauguration of several development projects in the southern provinces –estimated at USD 776Mn-, pointing out that Moroccan plan benefits from the support of Sahrawis and political parties.