The city of Dakhla will host in July the seventh "Morocco Today Forum" to discuss the possibilities and means to be adopted and challenges to be overcome in order to "implement the royal vision for the development of the Atlantic front of Africa and the access of the Sahel countries."

Experts and human rights activists highlighted Thursday in Geneva the scourge of child recruitment in armed conflicts around the world, considering the Tindouf camps, southwest of Algeria, as a black spot for this practice, which is a grave violation of international humanitarian law.

A Geneva-based NGO has alerted to the legal anarchy prevailing in the Tindouf camps in Southwestern Algeria, where thousands of saharawis live in dire conditions in tents or mud houses and depend mainly on international aid.

Two non-governmental organizations denounced on Tuesday in Geneva the grave violations of the rights of refugees in the Tindouf camps, southwest of Algeria, amid the silence of the international community.

The Council of the Laayoune Saguia el-Hamra Region unanimously approved, during its regular session in March, a draft framework agreement for partnership between the region and Mandera County, Kenya.