A Sahrawi man walks on the patio of a closed school in Bir Lahlou, Western Sahara, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. Morocco’s royal palace says that Spain’s prime minister has told the Moroccan king that a proposal for establishing an autonomous Western Sahara under Rabat’s rule is “the most serious, realistic and credible” initiative for resolving a decades-long dispute over the vast territory. The palace says Friday, March 18, 2021 that, in a letter to King Mohammed VI, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez recognized “the importance of the Sahara issue for Morocco” and that “Spain considers the autonomy initiative presented by Morocco in 2007, as the basis, the most serious, realistic and credible, for resolving the dispute." (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
