Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth ...

On June 15, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) updated its advice to warn against all travel to Israel, placing the country on “red alert”, the same level as Iran. Both countries’ ...

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has opened an investigation against the Algerian women’s national team, ahead of ...

I have just completed reading the 2025 Saharawi Observatory for Natural Resources and Environmental (SONREP) Report, titled ...

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

Morocco has occupied Western Sahara since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community.

A recent report by the Migration Research Institute identifies Morocco as “the most stable country in the entire Maghreb” and ...

News about Western Sahara, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), also known as Western Sahara, has ramped up calls on the global community to exert more pressure on the Kingdom ...

Ghana endorsed Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara, abandoning its long-held support for Sahrawi sovereignty. Now Ghana is aligned with Morocco's expanding economic and diplomatic maneuver ...