The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria ...

It is around 35 to 40 degrees Celsius in Wilayah of Bojador, the smallest of the five refugee camps on the border with Western Sahara. My feet are boiling in my shoes, but walking in bare feet is ...

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

In 1975, colonial power Spain abandoned Western Sahara, ... The border between the two neighbors has been closed for the past three decades, disrupting their respective economies.

“In this part of the Sahara Desert, there aren’t really borders, it’s open land,” says Gaici Nah, from the Sahrawi Mine Action Coordination Office, of the area between the Western Sahara ...

Since 1991, the United Nations has led a series of fruitless efforts to resolve the standoff over Western Sahara. A swath of desert about the size of the entire United Kingdom, Western Sahara is ...

For more than six decades, the people of Western Sahara have been denied their inalienable right to self-determination. The Moroccan “autonomy plan” is not a path to peace — it is a ...

The Polisario Front launched an attack on the border between Morocco and Mauritania. The group is fighting for the independence of Western Sahara. A Moroccan official said the attack did not disrupt ...

ALMOST 50 YEARS have passed since Morocco claimed sovereignty over Western Sahara, a slice of land that stretches for 900km along the Atlantic coast to the country’s south. The Polisario Front ...

Western Sahara remained a Spanish colony until 1975 when the Moroccan government organized a so-called “Green March” with 350,000 protesters marching into Western Sahara to claim the land.