Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal is facing five years in prison in Algeria after he lost an appeal against his ...

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.

Algeria officially opened its territory to «Sahrawi refugees» fleeing «Moroccan occupation» only after the Green March. But ...

The International Criminal Court has been asked to review a confidential legal report asserting that the Russia-linked Wagner Group has committed war crimes by spreading images of apparent atrocities ...

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria ...

The people of Western Sahara must be allowed to decide their future freely. Anything less is a betrayal — not only of them, but of the African continent’s enduring promise of liberation.

Thirty-four years after its establishment, the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) looks more fragile than ever. Washington’s recent tilt towards Morocco may force a rethink of ...

Since 1991, the United Nations has led a series of fruitless efforts to resolve the standoff over Western Sahara. A swath of desert about the size of the entire United Kingdom, Western Sahara is ...

In April 1991, the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) was established to oversee a referendum in which the people of Western Sahara could choose between ...

UN Extends Mandate for UN Peacekeepers in Western Sahara, With Algeria Protesting Over Human Rights UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted to extend the mandate of the U.N ...

The diplomat has even questioned the relevance of the efforts by the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). Rabat has known about de Mistura’s partition proposal since April, as ...