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.

Morocco's ambassador and permanent representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, denounced, in two letters addressed Wednesday to the UN Secretary General and to the resident and members of the Security Council, South Africa's complicity with Algeria and the "polisario", its unconditional appropriation of Algeria's geopolitical agenda and its blind ideological support to the armed separatist group.

The Arab Ministerial Committee on Iran has reiterated its solidarity with the Kingdom of Morocco against the interference of the Iranian regime and its ally "Hezbollah" in the internal affairs of the Kingdom.