The Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans living abroad, Mr. Nasser Bourita, received, Tuesday in Rabat, the diplomat Benjamin Ndagijimana who presented his consular commissions to exercise as Consul General of Burundi in Laayoune.

Some 3,868 candidates in the region of Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra are vying to win 431 seats in the legislative, regional and communal elections, scheduled for September 8.

Sierra Leonean diplomat Zainab Candy was installed, on Monday, as her country's consul general in Dakhla.

The Côte d'Ivoire reaffirmed, Thursday before the UN C24, its support for the Moroccan initiative of broad autonomy to reach a "negotiated and mutually acceptable political solution, based on realism" to the dispute over the Sahara.