Western Sahara's best-known human rights activist has ended a 32-day hunger strike in Spain and returned home after Morocco reversed its expulsion order against her.
Aminatou Haidar, a 43-year-old single mother, was denied entry to Laayoune, capital of the contested territory, by Morocco last month when she returned from a trip to the US. Flown to the Canary Islands, she refused to leave Lanzarote airport, sparking a diplomatic wrangle between Spain and Morocco, the former and present occupying powers in Western Sahara.
As Haidar's health deteriorated – she was hospitalised on Wednesday after drinking only sugar water for more than a month – the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, intervened, asking Morocco to return Haidar's confiscated passport. Accompanied by her personal doctor, she was flown home by charter plane early this morning.
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