محمد السادس

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI waves to the crowd 21 March 2006 after embarking yesterday on a five-day visit to the Western Sahara, his third trip to the contested desert region claimed by rebels as a separatist state. The United Nations has sought to settle the dispute over Western Sahara, a resource-rich former Spanish colony on Africa’s northwestern coast, which was annexed by Morocco in 1976. Rabat’s claim is contested by the Polisario Front, an Algerian-backed independence movement. AFP/PHOTO/ABDELHAK SENNA

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