Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures ...

CAIRO, July 3. /TASS/. The new Syrian government has presented the country’s new coat of arms — a hawk with outstretched wings and three stars above its head — during celebrations in Damascus as ...

There are few places as desolate as the camps of the Polisario Front in western Algeria. Over the years, infrastructure has been built to accommodate the tens of thousands of Saharawi refugees who ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a pro-Biafra secessionist group, has accused the United Kingdom of hypocrisy, colonial bias, and deliberately stifling the self-determination efforts of the ...

First published at The Pan Afrikanist. In 2025, we mark 50 years since Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara — a colonial occupation sustained by a repressive military apparatus, a deliberate ...

A team of researchers have uncovered Medieval inscriptions hidden on the walls of the traditional location of the Last Supper in Jerusalem.

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 ...

The Polisario Front has started to take on Morocco more aggressively in legal forums, challenging its right to exploit Western Sahara’s resources, and Morocco and its neighbor Algeria—a key backer of ...

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 ...

When Africa was carved up in the late 1800s Western Sahara came under Spanish colonial control and was known as Spanish Sahara. Later, France acquired a protectorate over most of the region.

Russia is one of Algeria’s strongest allies, being its number one arms supplier. On the Western Sahara dispute, Moscow’s policy has long been to appease Algiers.