At the Berlin Conference in 1884, when the European colonial powers divided Africa between them, Spain was awarded Western Sahara, which was then named 'Spanish Sahara'. But the people did not want to ...

France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati became on Monday the first French official to make a formal visit to the Western ...

The abuses of Western Sahara residents goes on. When we met representatives of the Collective of Human Rights Defenders of Western Sahara (Codesa) we heard of arbitrary arrests, the detention of young ...

French support for Rabat over Western Sahara irks Algiers. Morocco has also won backing from Western Sahara's ... is the ...

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has recently updated its official website with a new map and information about ...

There are certain places in the world that just take people’s breath away ... Libya, Egypt, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and Sudan. The Sahara is mostly known for its ...

The film Haiyu – Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara, chronicles Africa's last colony.This resource-rich territory of 266,000 square kilometres, with valuable ...

A Sahrawi man walks on the patio of a closed school in Bir Lahlou, Western Sahara, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021 Reeves’s ...

Morocco controls the vast majority of the territory under dispute, while many of its people now live in refugee camps in southeastern Algeria. Moroccans who have moved to Western Sahara from ...

Perhaps these people could be resettled in the Spanish ... The population of the Spanish Sahara, now called the Western Sahara, is estimated to be around 632,200 in an area the size of Colorado ...

Three MEPs belonging to The Left group were forced back to Spain Thursday evening after landing in Laayoune, the capital of the disputed territory of the Western Sahara, which is partly controlled by ...

The UK government is clinging to its traditional position of supporting the UN-led efforts to reach a political solution that “will provide for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara.” ...