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Sahrawi refugees in the Algerian desert (Photo: DG ECHO)

Time for EU to stop being bystander in Western Sahara

The Western Sahara conflict is at a turning point.

UN peace talks towards a negotiated settlement are expected as early as November.

With the recent appointment of a new UN secretary general's special envoy, former German president Horst Koehler, and the upcoming renewal of the UN peacekeeping operation (MINURSO) in a conflict that has been frozen for nearly 40 years, there is a rare window of opportunity to change the status quo.

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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.

Sahrawi refugees in the Algerian desert (Photo: DG ECHO)

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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.

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