Western Sahara Talks Stalled

Western Sahara’s independence movement threatens to pull out of talks with Morocco unless seven detained activists are released from jail. At a press conference, a spokesman for the the Polisario Front stated, “the detention of the seven Sahrawi activists and human rights abuses in the occupied Sahrawi territories are a threat to peace and to the negotiations with Morocco.” The seven activists were arrested after disembarking from a plane in Casablanca on October 8th.