World Hunger

Passers-by walk past graffiti near the Moroccan Tourist Board offices in Madrid December 9, 2009. Spain's governing Socialist party on Monday asked a Western Sahara independence campaigner to give up the hunger strike she started 22 days ago in protest at being expelled from her desert homeland. Aminatou Haidar, 43, has been at Lanzarote airport in the Canary Islands refusing food ever since Moroccan authorities put her back on a plane when she returned home to Laayoune after a trip to New York. The graffiti read: "Stop Torture" and "Sahara is not Morocco.