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".

The inauguration of an embassy in Rabat and of a consulate in Laayoune testifies to the "great interest" of the Republic of Zambia in cooperation with the Kingdom of Morocco, said Friday, Zambian Foreign Minister, Joseph Malanji, welcoming the "solidity" of bilateral relations.