Senegal's position on the Sahara issue "has not changed" since the time of former President Leopold Sedar Senghor, said Senegalese President Macky Sall.

Following the adoption by the UN Security Council of the resolution on the Moroccan Sahara, the spokesman of the Royal palace, Mr Abdelhak Lamrini, read out on Thursday the following statement:

King Mohammed VI received, Wednesday at the Royal Palace in Fez, Christopher Ross, Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara.

The Dakhla Kiteboarding World Cup, the first stage of the world kite surf championship (flying board) under the patronage of HM King Mohammed VI, ended on Sunday after six days of competition.

The Secretary General of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs, Dr Maouelainin Ben Khalihanna Maoulainin, received Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at the Council’s headquetres, Thomas von Goetz, Managing Director for Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East at the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who is on a working visit in Morocco.