In May, during one such raid, Moroccan agents raped my sister and I – in a barbaric message, they penetrated my sister using the broomstick that we use to wave the Western Sahara flag.

The SADR is the government in exile of Western Sahara ... of the indigenous population of Western Sahara live. I met Abdelkader in a small, semi-official, almost deserted building on the edge ...

In 2025, we mark 50 years since Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara — a colonial occupation ... of the same yoke under a different flag. The Atlantic access project supposedly ...

who became the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara. This picture taken on December 12, 2020 shows (L to R) US and Moroccan flags next to a US State ... More Department ...

Kenya also backed a Moroccan initiative offering landlocked Sahel states access to global trade through its Atlantic ports.

Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975. Since then it has been the ...

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