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...
As UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara ends, refugees cling to hopes of return
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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...
Key Takeaways
- As UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara ends, refugees cling to hopes of return.
- The Western Sahara conflict pits...
- The Western Sahara conflict pits...
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