The controversial “Holidays for Peace” program, overseen by the Polisario Front and supported by sympathetic European organizations, is under fire from Moroccan and Sahrawi rights activists who accuse ...

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

Since the Western Sahara War in 1975, Sahrawi refugees have resided in a collection of refugee shelters in the Tindouf province of Algeria. For over 50 years, these communities have struggled to ...

I am Saharawi refugee based in the refugee camps in southwest Algeria. Maxine: I first met Najla in 2022. I was fresh out of grad school, having just completed my dissertation on digital activism in ...

Faisal Salama, head of the Popular Committee for Tulkarem Refugee Camp Services, described the deteriorating conditions. He stated that the refugee camp now stands as a stark scene of destruction, ...

We all felt like refugees, but the camp was still alive with its old spirit. On October 28th, I was sitting in the street when I heard one boy tell another that Real Madrid had beaten Barcelona, 2 ...

Education in the refugee camps 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.

Refugee children from Honduras, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Russia, Venezuela and Fiji were welcomed at this year’s Camp Nefesh. The free summer day camp, hosted by Congregation B’nai Israel in ...

The future for young people in the refugee camps is very limited. While some can travel to other parts of Algeria, or even Spain and Cuba for higher education, the prospects of further employment ...

Around 170,000 refugees from that war are now residing in camps in Algeria like Ausserd. A ceasefire was established in 1991 that consolidated Morocco’s control of the territories west of the ...