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.

The terror installed by separatists in Tindouf camps arouses indignation from civil society organizations in Laâyoune asking Algeria to assume its legal and moral responsibility by stopping massive violations of human rights committed on its territory by Polisario.

Less than 20 pc of the population of the Tindouf camps in southern Algeria is of Sahrawi origin, said Hamada El Bihi, a Moroccan citizen who was detained for 40 years in these camps of shame before returning to the mother country.

Shaibata Mrabih Rabou, President of the Sahara Center for Studies and Research on Development and Human Rights, has underlined that Algeria is responsible for the persistence of the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, as it defends head-on the obsolete referendum option, which the Security Council has definitively discarded since 2001.