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Rabat Throws a Signal of Force by Cutting Down a Polisario Chief when the UN Envoy Steps on the Sahara

Summary by El Confidencial
Staffan de Mistura, a personal envoy of the UN Secretary General for Western Sahara, arrived on Sunday in the Tindouf refugee camps (southeastern Algeria) to meet Brahim Ghali, leader of the Polisario Front. He was almost simultaneously landing at Rabat Jean-Pierre Lacroix, UN Deputy Secretary General in charge of peacekeeping operations, including Minurso, in the former Spanish colony. That same Sunday, Moroccan Army drones killed Lehbib Mohame…

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Staffan de Mistura, a personal envoy of the UN Secretary General for Western Sahara, arrived on Sunday in the Tindouf refugee camps (southeastern Algeria) to meet Brahim Ghali, leader of the Polisario Front. He was almost simultaneously landing at Rabat Jean-Pierre Lacroix, UN Deputy Secretary General in charge of peacekeeping operations, including Minurso, in the former Spanish colony. That same Sunday, Moroccan Army drones killed Lehbib Mohame…

·Spain
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An alleged Moroccan drone attack kills one of the main military leaders of the Polisario Front – and hinders new UN mediation efforts.

·Frankfurt, Germany
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The son of a former leader of the independent organization, Lehbib Mohamed Abdelaziz, 37, was killed by a drone on Sunday 7 June in Western Sahara.

·Paris, France
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Rabat eliminates Lahbib Abdelaziz along with two other Saharan fighters while the UN envoy to the Sahara visits the Tindouf camps.

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"Spain condemns the breakdown of the ceasefire in the Middle East and calls for descalada"; "Spain condemns the attack on the Blue Helmets of the Miguel de...

·Madrid, Spain
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By Carlos Cristobal, Rebelion, Africa in Summary, June 10, 2026. Lahbib Mohamed Abdelaziz's death in combat has led me these days to review my Saharawi photo library. Among thousands of images accumulated for years appeared several photographs taken in July 2016 during the XV Extraordinary Congress of the Polisario Front «Mártir Mohamed [...] The entry Western Sahara. When Lahbib Mohamed Abdelaziz collected his father's legacy was first publishe…

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El Mundo broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Tuesday, June 9, 2026.
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