The people in Western Sahara are not allowed to express themselves. There are no press agencies on the ground that can document the violations against Sahrawi human beings in here.

We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of ...

Unfortunately, my story is just one of many. Morocco’s repression of the Sahrawi people, and Sahrawi human rights defenders in particular, is well documented. The Sahrawis have struggled under ...

In 1991, both Morocco and the Polisario Front, a liberation movement that seeks self-determination for Western Sahara, agreed to a UN-brokered ceasefire in anticipation of a referendum on self ...

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.

Today, Western Sahara is still occupied by Morocco and is thus considered to be Africa’s last colony. Desert Camps. It is around 35 to 40 degrees Celsius in Wilayah of Bojador, the smallest of ...

A recent visit by the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to refugee camps for people displaced by the Western Sahara conflict has stirred up tensions in the 40-year dispute.

Morocco instead proposed a plan in 2006 for the autonomy of Western Sahara that would allow the Sahrawi people to self-govern but remain under Moroccan sovereignty.

For Morocco's King Mohammed VI, this summer could go down in history. For five decades, the Western Sahara, a territory to the south of the country, has been at the center of a conflict which ...

The revelers included some Sahrawi people, ... Moroccans celebrate their World Cup victory against Portugal in the Morocco-administered Western Sahara city of Laayoune, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022.

Dion Nissenbaum’s article and video package on Western Sahara (“Dormant War Draws U.S. Spotlight,” World News, Aug. 12) is thorough and evenhanded overall, bringing attention to the oft ...

Western Sahara is a vast, arid expanse on the northwestern shoulder of Africa that is larger than Britain but is inhabited by only about 600,000 people. Even when Spain controlled Western Sahara ...