In Western Sahara, too, while traditional gender roles have freed women to push for independence, those norms also often mean that they do not pursue careers. Advertisement “It’s about the ...

The Polisario Front, the Western Sahara liberation movement, proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in 1976. The partially recognized SADR de facto governs the refugee camps on ...

On a rocky hilltop deep in the Sahara, five soldiers warm themselves around a charcoal brazier, sipping tea and dreaming of a war that doesn’t come. Their enemy, the Moroccan army, crouches ...

Every 15th of the month there is an organized nonviolent demonstration throughout the major cities of the occupied territories of Western Sahara: El Aaiún, Smara, Dakhla, and Boujdour.

The mainly desert territory in north-west Africa, Western Sahara is the subject of a decades-long dispute between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front. In 1975, Morocco occupied Western ...

The leader of the Western Sahara’s independence movement has vowed to end a 29-year-old ceasefire with Morocco, citing recent Moroccan border operations as a provocation. Brahim Ghali, leader of ...

In November, a 30-year ceasefire in the Western Sahara dispute ended when Moroccan troops intervened to remove Sahrawi protesters blocking a highway in the south of the territory. Since then, ...

Sahrawi women have been working at many levels to promote peace in Western Sahara. We're strong. And over the past forty-five years we have demonstrated our capacity.

The Moroccan army has come under attack in the Western Sahara, a disputed territory it occupies since 1975. They are involved in skirmishes against the armed wing of the Polisario Front, the land ...

News about Western Sahara, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

A long-frozen conflict in Western Sahara erupted on Friday as Morocco attempted to end a trade blockade by the region’s independence movement, triggering the first major clashes since 1991.