This is not a situation of the Sahrawi peoples' making. During Morocco’s 1975’s Green March - or invasion, to give it another name - the city of Rabat literally landed upon them.. Rushing into ...

The Polisario Front proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in 1976, with a government in exile in Algeria. Brahim Ghali was elected leader of the Polisario Front and president of ...

Soldiers from the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army parade at a ceremony marking 40 years since the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic was declared in 1976 in the disputed territory of Western Sahara ...

The Sahrawi freedom struggle against Moroccan occupation is hidden in plain sight. It is a struggle that has been underway since the 1970s, and by 1975 it evolved into a specific effort against ...

Unfortunately, my story is just one of many. Morocco’s repression of the Sahrawi people, and Sahrawi human rights defenders in particular, is well documented. The Sahrawis have struggled under ...

The death of Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, who led Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, comes as France is drawing down its forces in a region facing the menace of extremism.

Sahrawi refugee Mohamed Salem Hassan, 38, is having a plastic house built for him with the help of his family. He says that his right leg was stunted in 1997 when Spanish and French doctors ...

A Sahrawi human rights defender called on the international community on Thursday in Geneva to hold Algeria accountable for human rights violations committed in the Tindouf camps (southwestern ...

News of al-Sahrawi's death comes as France's global fight against the Islamic State organization is making headlines in Paris. The key defendant in the 2015 Paris attacks trial said Wednesday that ...

France's intention to use the French Development Agency (AFD) to fund projects in the disputed Sahrawi regions is a "provocative" step, Algerian state media reported on Sunday, citing a statement ...

Nairobi — President William Ruto has reiterated Kenya's commitment to UN-led efforts towards the amicable resolution of the dispute over Sahrawi, a partially recognized State agitating for ...

Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975. Since then it has been the ...