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Western Sahara's new envoy faces old challenges


 Significance
 On October 6, the UN Secretary-General announced the appointment of a new personal envoy to the Western Sahara dispute, Staffan de Mistura, an Italian diplomat with a four-decade career in numerous hotspots, most recently Syria and Iraq. De Mistura takes on the post amid increased military hostilities between Western Saharan independence movement Polisario and Moroccan forces.
 
 
 Impacts
 Morocco and Polisario will use different kinds of international diplomacy to pursue their aims.
 Growing conflict in Western Sahara could have dangerous spillover effects that would draw in Algeria.
 Without a significant reduction in tensions in Western Sahara, an Algerian-Moroccan rapprochement is unlikely.
