http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/732/ en_GB_uk Western Sahara http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/71211 Campaigners claim that a leaked legal opinion from the European Parliament reinforces the need to amend a fisheries agreement with Morocoo to prevent the EU from violating international law. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/70747 The Polisario Front, which has been fighting for three decades for an independent state in Western Sahaha, has begun destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/260 With food stocks running low, Western Saharan refugees living in camps along the Algerian border face the threat of a humanitarian crisis, the World Food Programme warned yesterday. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/1402 The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote tomorrow on a new United States-sponsored autonomy plan for the Western Sahara, which has been at the centre of a dispute for more than two decades between the Moroccan government and independence supporters of the Polisario Front. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/1451 Moroccan civil society activists have joined forces to form an unprecedented alliance to press for a solution to the drawn-out conflict in the disputed Western Sahara. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/1681 The United Nations Security Council hopes to find a solution to the Western Sahara conflict this month, reports Pieternel Gruppen. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/2344 More than 100 Moroccan prisoners have returned home following their release by the Polisario Front. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/3773 The United Nations Security Council has extended its mission in the Western Sahara by five months to allow for talks on new proposals for limited autonomy from Morocco. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/28552 This "Foreign Policy in Focus" brief examines the situation in Western Sahara, where it appears that Morocco is about to be rewarded--not sanctioned--for its 1975 invasion, thanks to support from the U.S. and France. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/4105 United Nations plans to resolve the 26-year-old dispute over the Western Sahara between Morocco and Polisario independence fighters is now a "laughable caricature" France's parliament has been told. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/4260 Moroccan authorities have arrested two leaders of the Western Sahara's self-determination struggle to prevent them from testifying about abuses before United Nations hearings on Human Rights currently underway in Geneva, charged international humanitarian groups yesterday. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/24769 A leading anti-arms trade group is poised to launch a legal challenge over the government's 1999 decision to sell gun parts to Morocco for heavy artillery in the disputed territory of Western Sahara. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/6366 Preparations for a poll on the status of the contested Western Sahara area currently controlled by Morocco have been marred by splits over voter registration which risk scuppering chances for peace, according to a new United Nations report. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/7091 A fresh diplomatic bid by the United Nations to solve the stand-off between Morocco and Polisario separatists in the Western Sahara is raising hopes of a settlement. http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/7388 A United Nations-backed poll on self-determination for the Western Sahara could be scuppered by a dispute over voter registration formalities, says UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.