Some Saharawi women divorce and re-marry eight times or more. In most Muslim cultures, a divorced woman becomes a social pariah. But in Saharawi culture she is both more respected than an unmarried ...

Saharawi women have demanded and won equal rights. They receive full education, have work opportunities similar to men’s and can vote in elections, held every four years.

Zahra Ramdan explains why she's visiting England to highlight the plight of the Saharawi women, and how Saharawi women differ from those in other Muslim countries.

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 ...

Women hold one fourth of the seats in the Saharawi parliament, and they make up most of the civil service, including teachers, nurses, and doctors.

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 ...

GROWING calls by some countries to give the disputed region of Western Saharawi autonomy have inspired the Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP), which says the secession resonates with their agenda for ...

The women run most of the services within the Wilaya — schools, looking after the elderly, sick and injured, the bakery, political education, administration and tending the Wilaya's sparse and stunted ...

World BEYOND War has given its 2023 Individual War Abolisher award to Sultana Khaya, a Saharawi nonviolent human rights activist from Western Sahara.

Saharawi women in the Western Sahara can marry and divorce as often as possible and take an active role in politics.