The United Nations Security Council extended, on Wednesday, for another year the mandate of the MINURSO and urged, for the first time, Algeria to allow the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) conduct a population census in the Tindouf camps (Algeria's south-west).

While announcements of the withdrawal of recognition of the so-called Polisario Republic by some countries continue, statements supporting autonomy project in the Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty increase. The most recent ones, and surely not the last, are those of Macedonia and the Comoros Islands.

The last report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the Sahara highlighted last week  Morocco's efforts to strengthen the institutional framework in promoting and protecting human rights, without referring to the" expansion of the MINURSO mission ", or any "control mechanism" of human rights in the Sahara .

Zambia and Papua New Guinea joined thirty countries withdrew their recognition over the past decade

The Republic of Zambia has decided to withdraw its recognition of the pseudo RASD, announced Saturday in Rabat, the Zambian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Kabinga J. Pande.

Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid, Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs received Tuesday, March 29, 2011, a delegation from the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS, at the Corcas headquarters in Rabat.