Polisario Front to intensify armed struggle in Western Sahara after UN extends mandate
Security forces block a road after dispersing a protest against the government enforcing of a mandatory Covid-19 vaccine pass to access public places and travel, in Rabat, Morocco, Wednesday, October 27, 2021
WESTERN Sahara’s Polisario Front said it had no choice on Saturday but to intensify and escalate the armed struggle in its fight for independence due to the “inaction” of the UN security council.
It condemned the council’s vote last Friday which extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (Minurso) until October 31 next year, describing it as “a major setback that will have serious consequences on peace and stability in the entire region.”
The Polisario Front, which leads Western Sahara’s government in exile, blasted the world body for its “deplorable silence” over the continued occupation of its land by Morocco and its failure to hold a referendum on independence, as was first promised in 1991.
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