The grey economy which proliferates in Tindouf camps is “responsible for the high degree of criminality and the insecurity which reign in the Sahel and Sahara area “asserted Mr. Alain Antil, researcher in charge of the sub-Saharan Africa program within the French institute of international relations (IFRI).

The president of Guinea Mr.  Alpha Condé, has reiterated full, firm and constant support of his country to the territorial integrity of Morocco and to the Moroccan autonomy in the southern provinces.

The chairman of the royal advisory council for Saharan affairs, Mr Khalihenna Ould Errachid , made a statement in an article published last Saturday by  the  Argentinean press agency “Télam” following a visit paid on the first of august to Rabat by a delegation of journalists from south America. He said  that  wide-spread anarchy  in the Sahara and Sahel region  is out of control which threatens Algerians themselves.

The American senator, Joseph Lieberman, has qualified the Moroccan proposal of autonomy as ‘serious and credible” expressing his wish that this initiative progresses in the near future “I have reiterated my constant position that the Moroccan policy regarding the Sahara affair leading to the autonomy is “good and realistic” asserted the senator who was expressing himself on Wednesday in Rabat, following his talks with the foreign affairs and cooperation minister Mr.  Saad El Otmani.