Tanzania reiterated on Thursday its support for the return of Morocco to the African Union (AU).“Tanzania has clearly expressed its support” for the return of Morocco to the pan-African organization, Tanzanian Prime Minister John Pombe Joseph Magufuli told reporters in Addis Ababa on the sidelines of the 30th Ordinary Session of the AU Executive Council.

Nigeria reiterated on Wednesday its support to Morocco’s return to the African Union (AU)."There is no objection to Morocco's request to reintegrate the AU," Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama told reporters in Addis Ababa on the sidelines of the 30th ordinary session of the AU Executive Council.

The Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council on Saharan Affairs, Khalihenna Ould Errachid, met on Wednesday, January 18, 2017, with a large delegation from the Moroccan-Chilean parliamentary friendship group, chaired by Claudia Nogueira Fernandez,in a working visit to the Kingdom January 16-22.

The speaker of the Senate of the Republic of Chile Ricardo Lagos Weber reaffirmed last Wednesday before members of the Moroccan parliamentary delegation chaired by Hakim Benchemach, speaker of the second Chamber, currently visiting Chile, his support for the efforts of the United Nations to find a just and equitable solution to the artificial conflict created around the Sahara, thus reiterating Chile's interest in the Moroccan autonomy proposal as the sole solution to the Moroccan Sahara issue.

Botswana is one of the countries supporting the return of Morocco to the African Union (AU), Botswana's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Pelonomi Venson, said on Tuesday in Rabat.