UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Christopher Ross will start from next Wednesday, a tour in the region to prepare a "possible resumption of direct negotiations" on the Sahara, where a solution "becomes more urgent than ever "in view of the" risk of instability in the Sahel ", said Friday the UN in New York.

Mr. Eckhart Von Malsen, international law expert and former member of the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), regrets the harsh living and extremely difficult conditions in camps in Tindouf, saying that the "living conditions I been able to see in these camps were absolute cruel."

The autonomy plan for the Sahara, proposed by Morocco, is "a good basis for discussions," said Friday MEP Neyts-Uyttebroeck, who "deplores" the Polisario and Algeria do not accept this plan as a basis for negotiation.

The Leadership Council for Human Rights (LCHR), one of the largest organizations of human rights in the United States, and Teach the Children International (TCI) sent a letter to the Chairmen of Foreign Affairs Committees of both the Senate and the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress to question about the "proved" implication of Polisario in terrorist activities in North Africa and Sahel, particularly in the north of Mali.