Every four years, a group of 2,000 elected people, including civilians, military members, Sahrawis from the refugee camps and from Western Sahara, and members of the diaspora, meets to vote on the ...

An article published by La Vanguardia linking Sahrawis from the Tindouf camps to the leadership of terrorist groups in the ...

By remaining in Laayoune, Hatra has skipped life in exile unlike hundreds of thousands of Sahrawis languishing in the Algerian desert. Laayoune marked on the map (Google map screen grab ...

The frustration is justified as all efforts to put an end to the Sahrawis’ plight have failed after 26 years of independence from Spain, only to fall under occupation from two neighbors ...

My generation of Sahrawis grew up believing in the United Nations-led peace process. In 1991, the Sahrawi national movement, led by the Polisario, suspended the armed struggle it had waged against ...

That sparked a guerrilla war with the Sahrawis who say the territory belongs to them. Polisario has been based in southern Algerian refugee camps since then. Polisario Front declared 40 days of ...