Polisario Front says Western Sahara truce is over

The Polisario Front says its ceasefire with Morocco is over, after Moroccan forces entered a buffer zone near the border between Western Sahara and Mauritania. Rabat insists the truce is still intact. Focus on Africa speaks to journalist Amine El Amri.

Plus, the latest from Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Prime minster Abiy Ahmed’s government has issued warrants for the arrest of senior figures from the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front.

And at least 74 people trying to reach Europe have drowned after their boat got into difficulties off the Libyan coast.

(Photo: Soldiers from the Arab Democratic Republic Saharawi training in Mehaires, Western Sahara in 2019; Credit: Stefano Montesi - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)