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  • August 29, 2016
    UN chief expresses concern over tensions in Western Sahara

    The UN Secretary-General is deeply concerned over the tense situation that has developed in the narrow buffer strip in south-western Western Sahara border as a result of changes in the status quo and the introduction of armed units from Morocco and the Polisario Front in close proximity to each other.

  • April 3, 2014
    MPs call on UN to monitor human rights in Western Sahara

    The UN Security Council must extend the mandate of the peacekeeping mission to Western Sahara to monitor and protect human rights, an all-party group of British MPs said today.

  • October 22, 2007
    Hidden conflict: Voices from Western Sahara

    Aminoutto Haidar, leading Saharawi human rights activist and ex-political prisoner, also known as the “Saharawi Gandhi”, in conversation with Italian photographer Patrizio Esposito, about the hidd