UN Security General Ban Ki-Moon recommended to the Security Council the extension of the mandate of the UN mission in the Sahara (MINURSO) for a further period of one year until April 30, 2011.

Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid, chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), received Thursday at the Council headquarters in Rabat, a delegation from Convergence for Mali's Development Party (CODEM), chaired by 1st Vice-President, Mamadou Diakite. 

Chairman of the European People's Party: Moroccan proposal "good and brave"

The chairman of the Royal Consultative Council for Saharan Affairs, Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid received Tuesday at the Council headquarters in Rabat, a delegation of MEPs, led by Mr Joseph Daul, Chairman of the European People's Party (EPP) at the European Parliament who is paying his first visit to Morocco.

The vast majority of the sequestered population in the camps of Tindouf, south-western Algeria, support Morocco's autonomy initiative for the Sahara and are in general disappointed by the failed promises of the polisario, said the Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Khali Henna Ould Errachid.

The Republic of Guinea-Bissau decided on Tuesday to withdraw its recognition of the so-called 'SADR'. The announcement was made in Rabat by Guinea-Bissau's State minister and Presidential advisor, El Haj  Dahaba, following a meeting with Morocco's Foreign minister, Taib Fassi Fihri.