On Sunday, Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf met with Staffan de Mistura, the Personal Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for Western Sahara.

Some attacks have concentrated on Moroccan military positions in Mahbes and Smara, towns in the so-called “useful triangle” in the North of the Western Sahara.

Algerias Foreign Minister met with the UN Secretary-Generals Personal Envoy for Western Sahara in New York on Tuesday, October 1. Ahmed Attaf reaffirmed to Staffan de Mistura that Algeria, «in ...

South of the Algerian town of Tindouf on the border with Western Sahara are five refugee camps. The camps are home to the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara and are administered by their freedom ...

In 1978, a military coup overthrew the Mauritanian government and in 1979 a peace agreement was signed between Polisario and Mauritania. Morocco then enters and occupies the Southern Sahara, which ...

For the past 30 years, the UN has been maintaining a peacekeeping mission in the Western Sahara to "monitor the humanitarian and security situation" and ensure compliance with the ceasefire agreement.

But all this achieved was to allow Morocco to deepen its hold over Western Sahara with the military and diplomatic support of the United States and the European Union (EU).

After a decades-long cease-fire crumbled in 2020, Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front have resumed fighting over the disputed Western Sahara.

A referendum must take place allowing the people of Western Sahara to decide their future freely, to uphold African solidarity, justice, self-determination and dignity ...

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 ...

Nineteen Sahrawi activists languish in prison years after Moroccan courts convicted them in unfair proceedings.

Staffan de Mistura, the UN envoy to Western Sahara, proposed dividing the disputed territory between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front as a potential solution to the long-running ...