TINDOUF, Algeria, January 30 (UNHCR) - Five camps the size of small cities emerge from the western Algerian desert, home to Saleh Sidi Mustafa and tens of thousands of other Sahrawi refugees. The ...

In refugee camps near the town of Tindouf in the arid south-west Algeria conditions are hard for indigenous Sahrawi residents.

Deep in the Algerian desert, a Sahrawi-run event puts Western Sahara’s struggle for liberation on the big screen.

Often depicting animals in motion, kinetic portraits, and expressive hands, Taquen’s expansive works exude momentum. The ...

Tomorrow, representatives of donor countries and NGO partners, accompanied by UNHCR and WFP staff, will start a three-day mission to the Sahrawi refugee camps in western Algeria to see first-hand the ...

In the Sahrawi refugee settlement, which has been in Western Algeria since 1975, baking workshops are building community bonds and health awareness.

The Sahrawi journalist and activist Asria Mohamed speaks with Democracy Now! ’s Amy Goodman about “Jaimitna,” an art installation that evokes the tents of Sahrawi people living in refugee camps.

WHILE the eyes of the world are fixed upon the genocide in Gaza, the 50th anniversary of another neocolonial conflict has gone relatively unnoticed. In 1975, Morocco annexed the adjacent territory of ...

An autonomous region is also envisioned by the around 173,600 Sahrawi refugees who have been living in Algerian refugee camps for the past 50 years.

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 ...

During the session, Algeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations used the opportunity to reaffirm that «Algeria has hosted Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf camps for over five decades.