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The article states in the present tense that the ceasefire has been in effect since 6 September 1991. That is contradicted by current UN material.

The UN Mine Action Service page for Western Sahara says: “Following the breakdown of the ceasefire in November 2020” its operations were largely suspended. That means the ceasefire was no longer continuously in effect after November 2020.

A Security Council Report chronology says that in November 2020 the Polisario Front declared that the Moroccan operation at Guerguerat “marked an end to the ceasefire with Morocco that had been in place since 1991.”

So the sentence is misleading as written because it presents the 1991 ceasefire as still ongoing, even though authoritative UN sources describe it as having broken down in November 2020.

The problem here is the ongoing-tense claim that Sultana Khaya has been under de facto house arrest since November 2020, which implies that the house arrest continued up to the time of this article version.

Amnesty International reported in September 2022 that Khaya left her house on 30 May 2022 after more than 18 months of arbitrary house arrest and traveled to Spain for medical treatment. Amnesty also says the restrictions had not been officially lifted, but that is different from saying she remained continuously under house arrest thereafter.

More recent sources also show that she has been active outside the home. Front Line Defenders says she has travelled internationally and participated in the UN Human Rights Council. Sahara Press Service reported that in July 2025 she took part in a conference in Geneva.

So while rights groups did document house arrest and serious abuse in 2020–2022, the article's present-tense wording is no longer accurate.

The article says the Madrid Accords were the mechanism whereby Spain ceded Spanish Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania. That is not the UN's legal position.

In a 2002 UN legal opinion, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Hans Corell wrote that the Madrid Agreement did not transfer sovereignty over the Territory, and also did not confer upon any of the signatories the status of an administering Power. In other words, the Accords did not legally cede Western Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania.

The UN's decolonization page on Western Sahara likewise explains that Spain informed the UN on 26 February 1976 that it was terminating its presence in the territory, while Western Sahara remained on the UN list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. So Spain withdrew, but that is not the same as legally ceding sovereignty.