Chief of W. Sahara Polisario independence group dead

[WorldNews]

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The Polisario Front which demands the Western Sahara's independence from Morocco said its secretary general Mohamed Abdelaziz died on Tuesday "after a long illness", Algeria's APS news agency reported. Abdelaziz, who was in his late 60s, had led the Algeria-backed Polisario since 1976 after the group was founded three years previously to struggle for independence for the former Spanish colony. APS said he had been suffering from lung cancer, but the Polisario gave no further details on the circumstances of his death.

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