Republican congressman, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, denounced in a speech on Tuesday before the House of Representatives of the US Congress, "cynical" and "purposeful" disinformation attempts over Laayoune's events.

Several Moroccan human rights organizations called on the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (HRC) to ensure the right of Mustafa Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud to choose the place where he wants to live or settle and take actions in order to protect him and his family and ensure his freedom of expression and movement.

Fleeing the nightmare in Tindouf, a "growing number" of Sahrawis choose to return to Morocco at their peril, writes Sunday the Washington Post, holding responsible the "deplorable"  living conditions and deprivation endured by the people sequestered in camps in southwestern Algeria.

After much procrastination, and despite shameful blackmailing by Algeria and the "polisario", Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud was released, on Tuesday morning in Mauritania, to the care of a delegate from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said Morocco's permanent representative to the UN office in Geneva, Ambassador Omar Hilale.

Several European Parliament members, representing different countries and political backgrounds, deplored the lack of wisdom and shrewdness in addition to the precipitation with which the European Parliament (EP) voted on an unbalanced and unjust resolution towards Morocco, which is a strategic partner of Europe.