As UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara ends, refugees cling to hopes of return

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The end of a decades-old UN peacekeeping mission has renewed attention on the Western Sahara dispute and the plight of refugees in camps in southern Algeria. The conflict has displaced people for generations, including Binina Mohamed, who has spent her life in a refugee camp.

At 51, Binina Mohamed is as old as the conflict that drove her from the Western Sahara region into a refugee camp in southern Algeria, where she has spent her life among tens of thousands of others facing a similar fate. The confrontation over her native land, often described as Africa’s longest-running territorial dispute, was brought back into focus this weekend by a UN Security ‌Council row that led to the end of a decades-old peacekeeping mission there. The Western Sahara conflict pits...