UN chief urges end to deadlock over disputed Western Sahara

The United Nations chief on Wednesday urged Morocco and Western Sahara's Polisario Front independence movement to end an impasse fuelling a four-decade dispute over the North African territory. Morocco took control of most of Western Sahara in 1975 when colonial power Spain withdrew, prompting the Polisario Front to wage a guerrilla war lasting until 1991, when the United Nations brokered a ceasefire and sent in a peacekeeping force. "My personal envoy, Mr. Christopher Ross, has intensified his