By focusing its attention on the artificial conflict over the Sahara, in which it has already clearly lost points, Algeria seeks to divert attention from its own stagnation, says political scientist Sebastien Boussois.

Morocco has made major diplomatic advances in the Moroccan Sahara issue, said in Dakhla the director general of the Paris-based Observatory of Geopolitical Studies (OEG), Charles Saint-Prot.

The first edition of the forum MD Sahara opened Thursday in Dakhla, under the theme "the southern provinces: major diplomatic openings and new avenues of development", at the initiative of the media group Maroc Diplomatique.

The Security Council resolution 2602 on the Moroccan Sahara recognizes the relevance and centrality of the Moroccan autonomy plan, proposed by the Kingdom as the only framework to achieve a lasting and acceptable political solution to the artificial dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, writes on Monday the Kenyan newspaper "The Standard."

The latest resolution of the UN Security Council (SC) has revealed the lies and illusions of the Polisario separatist group and its Algerian mentor about an alleged war, while highlighting the normality that prevails in the southern Moroccan provinces, writes the Peruvian daily La Razon.