Negotiators from Morocco and the Algeria-backed Polisario Front gather in Geneva next week for the first time in six years to try to resolve the conflict in the disputed Western Sahara. The talks come amid pressure from the Donald Trump administration to restart the stalled negotiations, which have dragged on since 1991, as a condition for renewing the UN mission in the region. Neither side wants the mission to end, but they remain far apart: Morocco, which occupies two-thirds of the resource-rich territory, has proposed giving the native Sahrawi people autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty, while the Polisario insists on holding a referendum on independence.
Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Al-Sarraj is expected to visit Jordan along with several ministers and the head of intelligence services to discuss reconciliation talks with eastern strongman Khalifa Hifter, who arrived in Amman earlier in the week.