Located in north-west Africa, just 140 kilometers from the Canary Islands, Western Sahara is a desert landscape with an arid climate. Since 1973, the POLISARIO liberation front has been fighting ...

A powerful new documentary at France's Fipadoc festival reveals Western Sahara's fight for independence through the story of Mariem Hassan, whose music became the voice of her people's resistance ...

Ghana's suspension of diplomatic ties with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic has sparked widespread criticism.

(Bloomberg) -- The group fighting for Western Sahara’s independence warned it ... only embolden Morocco” and “leave the Sahrawi people with no option but to intensify their armed struggle ...

Western Sahara is a highly contested territory and some people mistakenly think it's a country, which is incorrect. Morocco claims authority over Western Sahara, but the United Nations does not ...

Ron Guy reports. Marc B Sanganee visited a refugee camp in Western Sahara — home to the Sahrawi people and administered by the Polisario, which is fighting to liberate their homeland from Morocco.

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 ...

The government of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) - better known as Western Sahara - on Friday called for ...

When we met representatives of the Collective of Human Rights Defenders of Western Sahara (Codesa) we heard of arbitrary arrests, the detention of young people and discrimination against those who ...

Polisario responds after European Court of Justice rules that fisheries deal violated right to self-determination of Western Sahara's people ...