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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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.

The Western Sahara and North African People's Power As the African Union (AU) starts its bi-annual summit in Addis Ababa this week, the conflict over the Western Sahara remains an important issue to ...

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 ...