Western Sahara independence movement at crossroads after Polisario chief's death
ALGIERS/RABAT- Western Sahara independence chief Mohammed Abdelaziz took his movement through a war and diplomatic struggle, but his death leaves a new leadership facing a tough diplomatic test with a younger generation likely to be demanding change.
Abdelaziz, who died on Tuesday aged 68, will be buried on Saturday after more than three decades as leader of the Sahrawi people's Polisario Front movement and president of its self-declared Sahrawi Republic.
His name is synonymous with the Polisario, from its early days in the 1970s as a guerrilla front fighting against Spanish, and then Moroccan, troops through to the UN-backed ceasefire and years of stalemate over a referendum on the disputed territory's self-determination.
