In Western Sahara, too, while traditional gender roles have freed women to push for independence, those norms also often mean that they do not pursue careers. Advertisement “It’s about the ...

The Polisario Front, the Western Sahara liberation movement, proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in 1976. The partially recognized SADR de facto governs the refugee camps on ...

It is this sort of freedom that Saharawi women say sets their culture apart from Moroccan culture, and one of the reasons why they are prepared to continue their fight for an independent Western ...

The two women, activists from the city of Boujdour, in Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara, are both still covered in cuts and bruises and currently trapped in their homes, facing, they say, more ...

Western Sahara: One Year On, Woman Still Prevented From Returning to Spain. Held by Her Family in Sahrawi Refugee Camp in Algeria . Share this via Facebook Share this via Bluesky Share this via X ...

I first went to the Western Sahara in 2008 for the Sahara International Film Festival, the only one of its kind to take place in a refugee camp. I went there knowing only a little about the ...

In 1975, Morocco occupied Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, and women and children poured over the border into Algeria to escape the fighting. 33 years on, up to 200,000 people are still in ...

In this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, a Sahrawi woman in traditional dress walks through a low income neighborhood in Laayoune, the capital of the Western Sahara which has few jobs and ...

Interview - Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since 1948, while the Western Sahara, a territory that has been disputed in northwest Africa since 1976, is in a stalemate. UN peacekeeper ...

Polisario, which represents the indigenous people of the Western Sahara, attempts vainly to negotiate a referendum that has been obstructed by Morocco for over 10 years. The UN negotiations drag on ...

Fatma Maulud is a Saharawi from the Western Sahara. Like most Saharawis she is a Muslim. But unlike most Muslim women, Fatma has been divorced twice and is now on her third husband. Divorce is not ...