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In this image made from video, Brahim Ghali, leader of the pro-independence Polisario Front speaks to a crowd in Tindouf, Algeria, Feb. 27, 2021. The leader of the Polisario Front that leads the struggle for the self-declared Western Sahara republic has been brought to Spain to receive medical treatment, it was announced Thursday, April 22. Brahim Ghali, who is 73, leads the Algeria-backed pro-independence group representing the local Sahrawi population that has fought Moroccan forces for control of the territory in western Africa. Ghali was taken to Spain “for strictly humanitarian reasons,&quot; the foreign ministry said. (AP Photo)

Sahara’s Polisario Front chief gets COVID treatment in Spain

By ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 20 2008 file photo, pro-independence Polisario Front rebel soldiers prepare tea in the Western Sahara region of Tifariti. The Moroccan military has intervened in a U.N.-patrolled border zone in the disputed Western Sahara to clear a key road it said was being blockaded for weeks by supporters of the pro-independence Polisario Front. Moroccan forces set up a security cordon overnight in the Guerguerat buffer zone on Western Sahara's southern border with Mauritania, &quot;in order to secure the flow of goods and people through this axis,&quot; (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza, File)

UN chief vows to do utmost to keep Western Sahara cease-fire

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Morocco threatens UN buffer zones in disputed Western Sahara

By AMIRA EL MASAITI - Associated Press