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Staffan de Mistura, then United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, speaks in Geneva on September 4, 2018. He was nominated on October 6, 2021 as the organisation's envoy to the Western Sahara conflict. PHOTO | AFP
By Aggrey Mutambo
Editor - Africa & International
Nation Media Group
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday named Italian diplomat Staffan de Mistura as his Personal Envoy for Western Sahara.
This comes at a time when the territorial contest between Western Sahara and Morocco continues unabated.
