Some key dates in the history of Western Sahara: 1884 - Spain colonises Western Sahara, an area formerly populated by Berber tribes. 1934 - Becomes a Spanish province known as Spanish Sahara.

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 ...

Exploring the Sahara Desert near Marrakesh and connecting with the Berber people—an unforgettable cultural and desert adventure in Morocco.

For more than six decades, the people of Western Sahara have been denied their inalienable right to self-determination. The Moroccan “autonomy plan” is not a path to peace — it is a ...

Questions on Western Sahara’s autonomy have bled onto the sea, challenging the legitimacy of international fishers in waters that Morocco claims are their own.

So when Spain left Western Sahara in 1975, 90% of the population was illiterate. Educating the population was therefore one of the major tasks of POLISARIO and nowadays all children attend school for ...

This would also put at risk economic activity in the occupied territory, which is of relevance to Europe.

This year marks 50 years since Morocco invaded Western Sahara, forcibly displacing the Sahrawi people into Algeria. Women's rights and climate activist Najla Mohamed-Lamin joins us from the refugee ...

Explosions struck a city in a Moroccan-controlled part of the Western Sahara, killing at least one person and signaling a potential flare-up in one of Africa’s most protracted territorial disputes.

After a decades-long cease-fire crumbled in 2020, Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front have resumed fighting over the disputed Western Sahara.

A French delegation visiting Morocco with President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled investment plans in the disputed Western Sahara as part of a broader suite of ...

Some key dates in the history of Western Sahara: 1884 - Spain colonises Western Sahara, an area formerly populated by Berber tribes. 1934 - Becomes a Spanish province known as Spanish Sahara.