"The autonomy of southern provinces at the service of the Kingdom’s territorial unity " is the theme chosen this year for the traditional meeting organised by the Sahrawi tribe "Ouled Tidrarine" in the region of Essaouira.

 The Spanish Popular Party (PP) on Friday regretted the "radicalization" of the Polisario Front and warned that the Sahara conflict "could exhaust the international community."

 The United Nations Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Peter van Walsum, has criticized the Spanish civil society for having encouraged "Polisario" to bank on independence and contributed to "prolonging the agony" of the people held in the Tindouf camps (southwest of Algeria).

The former french minister of Culture and Education, Mr. Jack Lang said that the Moroccan autonomy proposal is "wise and reasonable proposal to break the impasse".

"The Sahara is near" was the theme of the first international summer camp in the southern provinces held until August 13, 20 km from laayoune, at the initiative of the Moroccan Alternatives Forum and the Spanish Catholic scouts.