UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara ends after 35 years

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara ceased operations on Sunday after the Security Council failed to extend its mandate. On Friday, Russia vetoed the draft U.S. resolution that supported Morocco's demand for sovereignty over Western Sahara and renewed the mission for a year. A rival Russian resolution to extend the mission was then voted down, causing an abrupt end of the force's mandate. Et voilà que cette tragédie que vit le peuple sahraoui. And now this tragedy, being injured by the Sahrawi people, has oddly been diluted to the concept of refugee populations. Not the Sahrawi people, refugee populations. And now this tragedy has morphed into core statistics, reduced to a body of food-related needs and budget resources. The Algerian-backed police area of France said the non-renewal of the mandate was an unacceptable decision. Meanwhile, Morocco's royal palace welcomed the move, calling the mission an instrument to internationalize the dispute. The situation of the refugees, my brother. The refugee situation, my Algerian brother, is that in any camp, in any situation, it's supposed to be temporary. It is done for 15 days. It's supposed to allow for people to go home eventually, so that these women, children and men can go back to their families and villages. That is what the negotiations want to achieve, to allow these people to go home and not to remain hostages to an Algerian political agenda and the hostages of an armed separatist group that has links with international terrorism. The mission had been repeatedly extended since it was established in 1991. It initially aimed to monitor a referendum on self-determination, but the votes never Never materialized.