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As UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara ends, refugees cling to hopes of return

South China Morning PostWestern Sahara

As UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara ends, refugees cling to hopes of return

At 51, Binina Mohamed is as old as the conflict that drove her from the Western Sahara region into a refugee camp in southern Algeria, where she has spent her life among tens of thousands of others facing a similar fate. The confrontation over her native land, often described as Africa’s longest-running territorial dispute, was brought back into focus this weekend by a UN Security ‌Council row that led to the end of a decades-old peacekeeping mission there. The Western Sahara conflict pits...

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