Conference: Uncomfortable Past: The Sahara Question in Historical Perspective, by Santiago Jiménez and Souadou Mohamed Fadel On Monday, 23 February at 11:30 a.m., Santiago Jiménez, retired professor at the USC, and activist Souadou Mohamed Fadel will give a talk entitled ‘The Sahara Question in Historical Perspective’ in Room 13 of the Faculty of History. The event is open to the general public. The Western Sahara issue is an unresolved territorial and decolonisation conflict that has been ongoing for almost 50 years, mainly between Morocco and the Polisario Front, and whose sovereignty remains undefined under international law. It is considered the last colony in Africa and the UN considers it a ‘non-self-governing territory’. Santiago Jiménez is a retired professor of hist...