As South Africa commemorates Human Rights Day, we must reflect on the ongoing struggle for self-determination faced by the ...

The ownership of Western Sahara has been contested since 1975. The indigenous Sahrawi people have lived in camps ever since. The dispute over Western Sahara is one of Africa’s longest running wars – ...

The long-standing conflict over Western Sahara—a resource-rich but sparsely populated desert region—traces its origins to the colonial era, much like ...

The dispute over Western Sahara is one of Africa’s longest running ... solution – the plight of the indigenous Sahrawi people, who used to live on the disputed land, is often forgotten.

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 ...

In the 1920s, following the Battle of Anoual, France provided military support to Spain to help secure its occupation of the ...

As a Sahrawi born and raised at a refugee camp in southwestern Algeria, Almami is among thousands of people who were forced to flee their homes decades ago in Western Sahara - a sprawling swathe ...

Western Sahara was a Spanish colony from 1884 to 1975 and never experienced sovereign statehood prior to colonial occupation. In 1975, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) acknowledged the right ...

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 council was reacting to a visit to Western Sahara by French Senate speaker ... defend the right of self-determination of colonised people, rather than trying to cancel and deny them”.