Western Sahara: reportage return with François Mazet
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Polisario front vehicle in the Sahrawi desert © RFI / François Mazet
By: François Mazet Follow |
Clementine Pawlotsky
1 min
A new UN envoy for Western Sahara will take office next Monday.
This is the Italian Staffan de Mistura.
A seasoned diplomat, he will succeed the German Horst Köhler who threw in the towel in 2019. Staffan de Mistura will have the difficult task of tackling one of the oldest conflicts on the planet, a real diplomatic puzzle .
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Since 1975, this territory considered "non-autonomous" by the UN has been disputed between Morocco and the separatists of the Polisario Front, supported by Algeria.
In November 2020, fighting resumed after a 30-year ceasefire.
What is the situation there?
What is the view of Sahrawi youth on this 46-year-old conflict?
How does she see the future?
Decryption with:
François Mazet
, journalist in the Africa service of RFI, returning from reporting in the territories administered by the SADR, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
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