The Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra region has 8,050 candidates for the normal session of the unified national baccalaureate examination for the 2019/2020 school year.

In Dakhla-Oued Eddahab, the new Coronavirus (Covid-19) has weighed heavily on tourism, one of the pillars of the regional economy.

The autonomy initiative presented by Morocco is a "realistic proposal" with a view to finding a solution to the artificial regional dispute around the Moroccan Sahara, writes the Peruvian daily "La Razón".

A meeting held Tuesday at the headquarters of the wilaya of Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra drew up the state of progress of the projects in the sectors of water, electricity and renewable energies, within the framework of the new model of development of the southern provinces (2015/2021).

Norwegian civil society activist Eric Cameron, President of the NGO World Action for Refugees, underlined the imprescriptible responsibility of Algeria for the humanitarian situation in the Tindouf camps in remarks he made for the Sahara Debate, a citizen-run show broadcast on social networks.