The strong dynamics of social and economic development in the Moroccan Sahara are a major asset for regional peace and stability, stressed Wednesday in Geneva, expert and member of Swiss NGO "Promotion of Economic and Social Development in Sustainable Development", Noureddine Obbad.

More than 100 separatists from the Polisario front are active within Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, warned Cherkaoui Habboub, Director of the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), in an interview with Jeune Afrique magazine.

A former detainee in the jails of the Polisario strongly denounced Wednesday the unprecedented crackdown on dissenting voices by the separatists' leadership in the Tindouf camps, with the complicity of the Algerian authorities.

International relations expert Matteo Dominici, on Tuesday, called on the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children and Armed Conflicts (SRSG) and on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to shoulder their responsibility by putting pressure on Algeria to stop the recruitment of child soldiers by the polisario in the Tindouf camps, located on Algerian territory.

Morocco is benefiting from growing international support for sovereignty over its Sahara and its autonomy plan, underlines, on Friday, Spanish newspaper "Canarias7".