President of the Foreign Affairs Commission in the Portuguese parliament on Tuesday described Morocco's initiative to grant autonomy to its southern provinces, the Sahara, as "very important".

A Sahara NGO decried the instrumentalisation of human rights issue to serve the propagandist thesis of the Algeria-backed Polisario.

Morocco's project of granting autonomy to its southern provinces remains a "very important initiative" to settle the Sahara issue, visiting Advisor to Paraguayan president, Alejandro Hamed Franco, said on Sunday.

“They can’t leave the camps ….. there is no way to leave the camps”, this   report given by Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw , during an interview about  their documentary “ Stolen” with Fran Kelly from the Australian national radio ABC ; this documentary tackles the story of Fatim, a sahraoui victim of slavery practices in the Polisario camps on the Algerian soil.

The African Arab youth council greeted the autonomy initiative proposed by Morocco for the settlement of the Sahara issue