Printed and audiovisual Italian media devoted editions to the relationship between Polisario and Al Qaeda branch in the Sahel AQIM.

The chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs, said in an interview with the Swedish newspaper "Arab News", published last Tuesday that behind the ongoing conflict about the Sahara region, there is Algeria which "does not allow Polisario to sign autonomy agreement."

Senegal's position on the Sahara issue "has not changed" since the time of former President Leopold Sedar Senghor, said Senegalese President Macky Sall.

Polisario’s agony is currently an "irreversible fact", even if there are those who try to deny it, wrote Saturday Canarian newspaper "El Dia".

Spain deems "unsustainable" the proposal by the United States to expand (MINURSO) mandate to include human rights monitoring, said Spanish newspaper "El Pais".