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The people of Western Sahara must be allowed to decide their future freely. Anything less is a betrayal — not only of them, but of the African continent’s enduring promise of liberation.

On April 27, the journalists tried to enter the occupied territory's capital Laayoune by car from the north but were arrested by security forces and taken to the southwestern city of Agadir, where ...

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Western Sahara was an overseas Spanish colony from the 1880s until the mid-1970s. Mauritania and Morocco both laid claim to the territory after Spain withdrew, partitioning it between them.

The United Nations considers Western Sahara a "non-self-governing territory" and has had a peacekeeping mission there since 1991 whose stated aim is to organise a referendum on the territory's future.

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Morocco's King Mohammed VI, 2nd right, flanked by his brother prince Moulay Rachid, inspects the royal guard in Laayoune, the capital of disputed territories of the Western Sahara, Nov. 7, 2015.