ALGIERS, Algeria: The United Nations' Western Sahara envoy, Staffan de Mistura, met Saturday (Sunday in Manila) with representatives of the Polisario independence movement in Tindouf, Algeria as part of a regional tour, Sahrawi sources said.

The Algerian-backed Polisario Front wants an independent state in the Western Sahara, a vast stretch of mineral-rich desert which Morocco sees as a sovereign part of its own territory.

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