Burundian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Development Cooperation Albert Shingiro reiterated, Thursday in Rabat, his country's support for the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Morocco and its national unity in accordance with the UN Charter, and reaffirmed Burundi's support for the exclusive settlement of the Sahara issue by the United Nations through the autonomy plan, as the only solution to this dispute.

Morocco's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, ambassador Omar Hilale, alerted the UN Secretary-General and the Security Council to the massive and systematic violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the Tindouf camps in Algeria.

The U.S. decision to recognize the Moroccanness of the Sahara is a decision that should be highly commended, said Nancy Huff, president of the U.S. NGO "Teach the Children International", who denounced the maneuvers and lobbying of polisario and its Algerian mentors to challenge this wise decision that would "bring peace" to a region plagued by instability.

For more than four decades, the Tindouf camps have been an open-air prison where thousands of Sahrawis are held captive, Indonesian news portal "Kompasiana" wrote on Thursday.

The Canadian government is called upon to work to put an end to the situation of 8,000 Sahrawi children exploited as soldiers in the Tindouf camps in Algeria, in accordance with its commitment to the Vancouver Principles, underlines Polisens think tank in Ottawa.