Spain pulled out of Western Sahara in 1975, but after decades of ... a subsidiary of Air France-KLM, began Paris-Dakhla flights while Irish budget airline Ryanair started flights from Madrid.

In a pitiful spectacle of diplomatic irrelevance, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune received the so-called “leader” of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, at the presidential palace in Algiers on ...