The ‘Gandhi of Western Sahara’ warns time running out to avoid ‘war’
By AFP
07 December 2019 |
10:05 am
Aminatou Haidar, a champion of peaceful resistance to Morocco's annexation of Western Sahara, is demanding urgent international action to prevent the frozen conflict from devolving into war.
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