This is not a situation of the Sahrawi peoples' making. During Morocco’s 1975’s Green March - or invasion, to give it another name - the city of Rabat literally landed upon them.. Rushing into ...

The Polisario Front proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in 1976, with a government in exile in Algeria. Brahim Ghali was elected leader of the Polisario Front and president of ...

Soldiers from the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army parade at a ceremony marking 40 years since the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic was declared in 1976 in the disputed territory of Western Sahara ...

The Sahrawi freedom struggle against Moroccan occupation is hidden in plain sight. It is a struggle that has been underway since the 1970s, and by 1975 it evolved into a specific effort against ...

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 ...

Sahrawi refugee Mohamed Salem Hassan, 38, is having a plastic house built for him with the help of his family. He says that his right leg was stunted in 1997 when Spanish and French doctors ...

Nairobi — President William Ruto has reiterated Kenya's commitment to UN-led efforts towards the amicable resolution of the dispute over Sahrawi, a partially recognized State agitating for ...

A Sahrawi human rights defender called on the international community on Thursday in Geneva to hold Algeria accountable for human rights violations committed in the Tindouf camps (southwestern ...

France's intention to use the French Development Agency (AFD) to fund projects in the disputed Sahrawi regions is a "provocative" step, Algerian state media reported on Sunday, citing a statement ...

The U.N. is pushing for a plan to split Western Sahara as a possible solution to the long-standing conflict in the region. Staffan de Mistura, U.N. envoy to Western Sahara, revealed his idea of ...

A Sahrawi-Australian woman has called for more recognition of her people's struggle for independence in the Western Sahara. The disputed territory is known as the last African colonial state yet ...

Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975. Since then it has been the ...