The European Parliament's foreign Affairs committee rejected, on Monday in Brussels, an amendment hostile to Morocco, which had been introduced by the green group, aimed at treating the Moroccan Sahara separately in the European Union's neighborhood policy.

The populations sequestered in the Tindouf camps live in one of the "most inhospitable places in the Algerian desert", deprived of all rights, writes the daily Canarian La Provincia on Friday.

The Council of Government, which convened on Thursday in Rabat, adopted a draft law to approve an agreement meant to apply to products from the southern provinces of the Kingdom the same tariff preferences as those covered by the Morocco-European Union Association Agreement.

The influential South-African newspaper ‘Daily Maverick’ criticized on Tuesday South Africa’s position on Morocco’s territorial integrity, noting that “Pretoria still prefers to view the issue through a Cold War lens.”