UN refugees chief warns conditions in W.Sahara ‘deteriorating’

UNITED NATIONS, United States: The United Nations’ top official for refugees warned on Friday that conditions for long-displaced people in Western Sahara were getting worse and that their humanitarian needs were starkly underfunded. Western Sahara, a mineral-rich former Spanish colony, has been largely controlled by Morocco since 1975, but the United Nations considers it a non-self-governing territory. Morocco has waged a decades-old conflict with the Algerian-backed Polisario Front, which se