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.

Residents of modern megacities are accustomed to the uninterrupted water supply to their apartments. In such comfortable conditions, sometimes a false feeling is created that this important source of ...

The Western Sahara was a colony of Spain until dictator General Franco died in 1975. Following that, we, a weak and unstable Spain, left the land to Morocco, who invaded it militarily.

This month, US Congress passed the 2015 Appropriations Bill. Among other provisions, the new law strengthens US mandate for assistance to Morocco to be used in Western Sahara. The law says ...

The ownership of Western Sahara has been contested since 1975. The indigenous Sahrawi people have lived in camps ever since. Show more The dispute over Western Sahara is one of Africa’s longest ...

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 ...

An overview of this territory, which is in dispute between the Sahrawi people and Morocco. ... Some key dates in the history of Western Sahara: 1884 - Spain colonises Western Sahara, ...

Over the past four decades, thousands of Western Sahara’s Indigenous people, the Sahrawi, have been tortured, imprisoned, killed and disappeared while resisting the Moroccan occupation.

In 1991, the Sahrawi national movement, led by the Polisario, suspended the armed struggle it had waged against Morocco since it occupied Western Sahara in 1975.

Western Sahara has been on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories since 1963 following the transmission of information on Spanish Sahara by Spain under Article 73 e of the ...

In the stretch of Western Sahara under Polisario Front control, the constant buzz of drones is now a continuous and maddening fact of life.. Sidate Side Bahia and Naim Ahmed Salm Ibarki remember ...

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.