Many people in Western Sahara hope Morocco's long-discussed autonomy plan for the area -- now backed by the UN Security ...

TIFARITI, WESTERN SAHARA — On a rocky hilltop deep in the Sahara, five soldiers warm themselves around a charcoal brazier, sipping tea and dreaming of a war that doesn’t come. Their enemy, the ...

The Sahrawi, descendants of Arab and Berber nomads who herded camels and goats across the desert for millennia, found their ...

South of the Algerian town of Tindouf on the border with Western Sahara are five refugee camps. The camps are home to the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara and are administered by their freedom ...

Utilizing interdisciplinary and multimethodological approaches, this essay explores women’s roles in buttressing the political cohesion of secessionist movements in postcolonial Africa. It argues that ...

The international community must decide which principle will prevail: the right of self-determination or the right of ...

GENEVA, August 29 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency and World Food Programme (WFP) today made a joint appeal for more food aid and funds for some 155,000 Western Saharan refugees facing malnutrition in ...

TINDOUF, Algeria, June 28 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency's pilot project of family visits to and from Western Sahara has gotten off the ground, with more than 800 participants so far and another ...

TINDOUF, Algeria, March 1 (Reuters) - Generations of young Sahrawis have grown up in Algeria's remote desert refugee camps largely forgotten by the outside world and now see no prospect of an ...

The International Court of Justice’s 1975 advisory opinion affirmed that no ties of sovereignty existed between Morocco and ...

Morocco has a new proposal aimed at resolving a decades-old dispute over the Western Sahara. The Kingdom of Morocco seized the land to its south when Spain withdrew from there 30 years ago. Fighting ...