Western Sahara Seeks to Expand UN Peacekeeping Mandate - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Kaci Racelma

Kaci Racelma

Apr 23, 2013

A protester argues with police officers as he protests against U.S.-backed plans to broaden the mandate of UN peacekeepers in the disputed Western Sahara, in Casablanca April 22, 2013. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal (MOROCCO - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTXYW4L — A protester argues with police officers as he protests against plans to broaden the mandate of UN peacekeepers in the disputed Western Sahara, in Casablanca, April 22, 2013. — REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

An activist takes part in a demonstration to demand the release of Moroccan political prisoners in Guadalajara, January 26, 2013. The demonstration was called in support of Sahrawi prisoners who have been in jail in Rabat, Morocco, since 2010. The Sahrawi prisoners are demanding their right to freedom as well as the independence of the territories occupied by Morocco in Western Sahara, according to the Sahrawi resistance organization. REUTERS/Alejandro Acosta (MEXICO - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3D0N

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Brahim Ghali (C), new secretary general of Polisario Front and president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), walks at the Sahrawi refugee camp of Dakhla, southeast of the Algerian city of Tindouf, July 9, 2016. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina? - RTSH3RO

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Habibulah Mohamed Lamin

Habibulah Mohamed Lamin

Aboudjera Soltani, the leader of the Islamist party Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP) which is part of the , Algerie Verte (Green Algeria) alliance, gives a speech during his final parliamentary election campaign rally in Setif, about 300 km (186 miles) east of Algiers, May 5, 2012. Algerie Verte is an alliance of three Islamist parties, the Islamist party Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP), El-Islah and Ennahda movements. Algeria votes in a parliamentary election on May 10 that will test the governm

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Western Sahara's Polisario Front President Mohamed Abdelaziz listens to a question during an interview in Madrid November 14, 2014. REUTERS/Andrea Comas (SPAIN - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR4E6AF

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