The U.N. is pushing for a plan to split Western Sahara as a possible solution to the long-standing conflict in the region.

The U.N. envoy to Western Sahara has proposed partitioning the territory between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario ...

The idea of partition isn't new. In a never-enacted agreement, Mauritania ceded the southern part of Western Sahara to Polisario when it withdrew in 1979. Former envoy James Baker floated ...

The United Nations envoy to Western Sahara has proposed dividing the territory between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front in order to resolve the decades-old conflict, AFP learned ...

Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations envoy for Western Sahara, has proposed the notion of partitioning the area between ...

Staffan de Mistura, U.N. envoy to Western Sahara, revealed his idea of carving up the territory between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front during a closed briefing for the U.N ...

(Denis Balibouse/Pool via AP, File) (Denis Balibouse) TANZANIA – The U.N. envoy to Western Sahara suggested dividing the territory between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front as a ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy to Western Sahara suggested dividing the territory between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front as a way to settle the decades-long conflict.