Sahrawi men and women at a meeting of party leaders in Laayoune, a city in the territory of Western Sahara. Youssef Boudlal/Reuters The following interview is with Fatma El Mehdi, one of eight ...

In the interim, the Western Sahara chunders on, and at an impressive rate of development and growth. The port town of El-Marsa is an example of this progress. From a few fishing boats and no paved ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 28 October 2024 Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former ...

MINURSO (the U.N. mission for the Western Sahara) observers take note of a Moroccan drone strike on ... More a civilian vehicle on January 1st, 2024. The Moroccan army has come under attack in the ...

There was no hope for a solution. But Aminatou’s action put back the Western Sahara’s issue at the top of the international agenda,” El Bachir El Dhif, a Sahrawi journalist, said.

Egypt is planning to open a general consulate in the city of Laayoune in the disputed Morocco-controlled Western Sahara ... Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi instructed his foreign minister ...

The Moroccan Ministry of Justice should investigate the police beating and intimidation of two human rights activists in December 2007 in the Western Sahara city of El-Ayoun, Human Rights Watch ...

In a statement to the media, on the sidelines of the inauguration on Monday of a pilot police station in Western El Marsa, Ben Jeddou added that the ministry officials meet daily with members of ...

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 ...