The 8th Sahara Film Festival will go ahead May 2-8 at a refugee camp deep in the Algerian desert despite the turmoil that has engulfed north African countries in recent months.

We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of ...

Andy Kershaw visits the Festival of Nomad Music in Mauritania, a country on the western fringe of the Sahara Desert that is rarely visited by international tourists or businessmen. Show more Andy ...

It was the second night of the 17th edition of FiSahara, the Western Sahara International Film Festival, held on Oct. 11-16 in the Auserd refugee camp in Algeria’s westernmost province of ...

Dahkla, an isolated refugee camp in the Sahara desert, is not the most likely setting for an international film festival. And yet for five days in the coming week (from 5th - 11th May), this desolate ...

Western Sahara remained a Spanish colony until 1975 when the Moroccan government organized a so-called “Green March” with 350,000 protesters marching into Western Sahara to claim the land.

The film Haiyu – Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara, chronicles Africa's last colony.This resource-rich territory of 266,000 square kilometres, with valuable ...

On the festival's Facebook page, it refrained from posting photos of participants holding Polisario flags, a decision criticized by Polisario supporters in Mauritania.