The chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs, Mr. Khalihenna Ould Errachid held on Monday in Rabat, talks with a delegation from the National Institute for Political and Strategic Studies in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, during which he briefed on the latest developments in the Sahara, especially the Moroccan plan to grant enlarged autonomy to the southern regions.

The Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Mr. Ould Errachid Khalihenna, met Friday in Rabat, with Mr. Philippe Moureaux, Minister of Federal State, Vice-President of the Belgian Socialist Party and Mayor of the municipality of Molenbeek, who is paying a working visit to the Kingdom.

A group of young Sahrawis, having recently benefited from family visit exchange, decided to settle permanently in the province of Essmara. 

The work of the economic and social development promotion agency for the southern provinces (APDS) is "very positive," member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), Juan Gabriel Callejon Baena, said here Friday.

The latest UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution on the Sahara (1871) has consolidated the UN system of reference and the efforts of the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General, by being part of the process launched in April 2007, thus refuting the logic of other parties, Foreign minister, Taib Fassi Fihri, said Thursday.