In Western Sahara refugee camps, little optimism over frozen conflict

A child looks out from a tent at a Sahrawi refugee camp in Tindouf, Algeria January 17, 2022. Picture taken January 17, 2022. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina

TINDOUF, Algeria (Reuters) - From the deep desert camps in Algeria near the border with Morocco where Sahrawi refugees have lived for decades, the latest diplomatic moves to resolve the long-frozen conflict over their territory feel a long way from resolution.

As the new United Nations envoy for Western Sahara arrived for a recent visit to Algeria's Tindouf, where the Polisario Front bases its struggle for the territory's independence from Morocco, children went barefoot despite the January cold.