For the third year in a row, the US State Department's annual report on human rights, released on Monday, devotes a chapter to Morocco, including its Sahara.

A delegation from the US Congress, on a working visit to Morocco from March 13 to 17, was briefed on the dynamics of development taking place in the Dakhla-Oued Ed Dahab region. It also met a number of local officials and visited several industrial units.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced on Thursday the appointment of Bangladeshi General Fakhrul Ahsan as commander of MINURSO.

Populist and separatist movements feed on violent extremism, intolerance and hatred, said the Speaker of the House of Councillors, Enaam Mayara, stressing that these movements have started to spread in a worrying way in many parts of the world, where security vulnerability and instability prevail.

The International Observatory for Peace, Democracy and Human Rights (IOPDHR) has drawn a bleak picture of the situation of the sequestered populations in the camps of Tindouf (southeast Algeria), in a report presented Friday in Geneva.