By remaining in Laayoune, Hatra has skipped life in exile unlike hundreds of thousands of Sahrawis languishing in the Algerian desert. Laayoune marked on the map (Google map screen grab ...

The “Sahrawis for Peace” movement has called for urgent UN intervention to stop what it labeled a “senseless war” in the Moroccan Sahara, following a Moroccan drone strike over the weekend ...

In the wake of a deadly incident involving Algerian military forces, the Sahrawis for Peace Movement — a dissident faction from the Polisario Front — has issued an urgent letter to UN envoy ...

Deid vividly remembers arriving in the region at age 9, after a harrowing journey across the desert, having fled the violence between Moroccans and Sahrawis in the mid-1970s. She was separated ...

LAAYOUNE, Western Sahara — Dozens of buildings are still blackened from fire on this remote desert city’s main boulevard, their windows shattered, their doors boarded up. A hostile silence has ...

Every four years, a group of 2,000 elected people, including civilians, military members, Sahrawis from the refugee camps and from Western Sahara, and members of the diaspora, meets to vote on the ...

The frustration is justified as all efforts to put an end to the Sahrawis’ plight have failed after 26 years of independence from Spain, only to fall under occupation from two neighbors ...

A long and inconclusive guerrilla war followed. The Polisario Front, which represents the people of the Western Sahara known as the Sahrawis, was supported by Algeria. Morocco was supported by ...

My generation of Sahrawis grew up believing in the United Nations-led peace process. In 1991, the Sahrawi national movement, led by the Polisario, suspended the armed struggle it had waged against ...

Seated alone by the sea on the terrace of Les Amandiers, a famous cafe in Cayenne, Said* frantically exchanges vocal notes with his family. Amid the conversations in Creole, French and Brazilian ...

Most of the Sahrawi refugees have been living for more than 35 years in the desert regions of Tindouf. However, many Sahrawis stayed in the Western Sahara and today families remain separated.

That sparked a guerrilla war with the Sahrawis who say the territory belongs to them. Polisario has been based in southern Algerian refugee camps since then. Polisario Front declared 40 days of ...