It is around 35 to 40 degrees Celsius in Wilayah of Bojador, the smallest of the five refugee camps on the border with Western Sahara. My feet are boiling in my shoes, but walking in bare feet is ...

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria ...

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

Did you know that the world looks different depending on where you are? Maps, as commonly seen in textbooks and online, are ...

In 1975, colonial power Spain abandoned Western Sahara, ... The border between the two neighbors has been closed for the past three decades, disrupting their respective economies.

Since 1991, the United Nations has led a series of fruitless efforts to resolve the standoff over Western Sahara. A swath of desert about the size of the entire United Kingdom, Western Sahara is ...

Campaigners from Western Sahara have welcomed a ruling by the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) declaring that a trade deal between the European Union and Morocco over fishing rights breached their right ...

The Polisario Front launched an attack on the border between Morocco and Mauritania. The group is fighting for the independence of Western Sahara. A Moroccan official said the attack did not disrupt ...

Western Sahara remained a Spanish colony until 1975 when the Moroccan government organized a so-called “Green March” with 350,000 protesters marching into Western Sahara to claim the land.