UN chief pleased to see next formal talks on Western Sahara to be held next week (People's Daily)

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon said Tuesday that he is pleased that the parties have agreed to meet in the next set of informal talks on Western Sarhara on Feb. 10-11 and "he encourages the parties to make further progress and urges focused and productive discussions." "The secretary-general is pleased that the parties have agreed to the proposal made by his Personal Envoy, Mr. Christopher ...

A tragedy for Western Sahara (Mail and Guardian)

Anyone who has seen Hunger , Steve McQueen's harrowing film about the Maze prison hunger strike, will have some idea of just how horrific it is to die by starvation. Bobby Sands, a fit 27-year-old man, survived 66 days without food.

West Sahara wavers between dream of peace and threat of war - Feature (EARTHtimes.org)

Madrid/Rabat - After 35 years of a fruitless struggle to solve one of the world's longest-running conflicts, is the deadlock over Western Sahara finally be about to be broken? We are optimistic, says Bucharaya Beyun, the delegate to Spain of the Pol...

The cost of freedom (Morning Star)

The Western Sahara peace activist Aminatu Haidar switched within hours from being on the verge of death from an enforced hunger strike in Spain to being held under house arrest at her home in El Aaiun.