Western Sahara: 13 years and $600 million later, peace nowhere in sight

The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has warned that UN peacekeepers will be pulled out of the Western Sahara next February unless the Moroccan government and the Polisario Front can come to some agreement on how to bring peace to the troubled desert territory. According to Annan, the international body is left with two options - the ending of the UN presence in the Western Sahara or a continuation of the push for a peaceful settlement. While the peace has held in Western Sahara for more than a decade, there has been no real rapprochement between Morocco and Polisario.