News about Western Sahara, ... In the Sahrawi refugee settlement, which has been in Western Algeria since 1975, baking workshops are building community bonds and health awareness.

AZORES, PORTUGAL, 17 MARCH 2014 - Some 140 people from the Saharawi refugee camps near Tindouf, Algeria and from Western Sahara Territory today began a week-long cultural seminar in the Azores islands ...

The Western Sahara resolution, building on existing policy frameworks, offers an achievable victory that can generate momentum for broader regional initiatives.

On 7 January this year flights resumed between Western Sahara Territory and the refugee camps in Algeria. Each of the flights takes around 30 people in each direction, so progress is slow. To date, ...

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria, and to the west of Mauritania – has become an "intricate" and ...

Western Sahara was an overseas Spanish colony from the 1880s until the mid-1970s. ... Diplomatic pressure could be building for an end to the conflict.

Building peace should first happen at local levels from Saharawi people; Western Sahara’s police force should be strengthened; and then formal agreements with Morocco should be signed.

Dakhla refugee camp, southwestern Algeria—Tchlaz Bchere has visited Western Sahara, the land she calls her rightful home, only once.Born and raised in a refugee camp in the remote desert expanse ...

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 ...

Western Sahara has been on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories since 1963 following the transmission of information on Spanish Sahara by Spain under Article 73 e of the ...

In the stretch of Western Sahara under Polisario Front control, the constant buzz of drones is now a continuous and maddening fact of life. Sidate Side Bahia and Naim Ahmed Salm Ibarki remember ...

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.