ALGERIA-WSAHARA-POLISARIO-POLITICS

Displaced Sahrawis gather outside the refugee camp of Dakhla, which lies some 170km to the southeast of the Algerian city of Tindouf, on January 14, 2023. - The Polisario movement, which seeks independence in disputed Western Sahara, started meeting on January 13 for leadership elections in the shadow of mounting tensions between host Algeria and Morocco, which controls most of the territory. More than 2,200 members of the movement and 370 foreign guests are attending the five-day congress deep in Algeria's desert, at a Sahrawi refugee camp named after Dakhla, an Atlantic port city in what is Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara. (Photo by Ryad KRAMDI / AFP) (Photo by RYAD KRAMDI/AFP via Getty Images)