The relevance of the Moroccan initiative to grant a broad autonomy to the Sahara region, described by the international community as a serious and credible solution, was highlighted, on Thursday in Geneva, at the 40th session of the UN Human Rights Council, which was also an opportunity to thwart the false and hostile allegations to the territorial integrity of the Kingdom.

The annual session of the Crans Montana Forum will be held, for the fifth consecutive edition, in Dakhla (Morocco) from March 14 to 17, 2019, organizers said.

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.