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The UN’s new Western Sahara envoy met Sunday with the leader of the pro-independence Polisario Front in neighbouring Algeria, state media reported, as part of his first official regional tour. Staffan de Mistura, a former UN envoy to Syria, met the Polisario’s Brahim Ghali in a camp for Sahrawi refugees outside the desert town of Tindouf, Algeria’s official APS news agency said. The Polisario chief told the envoy that his organisation sought “a just and fair solution” that “guarantees the Sahrawi people their right to self-determination and full national independence”, APS reported. The Polisa…