TIFARITI, WESTERN SAHARA — On a rocky hilltop deep in the Sahara, five soldiers warm themselves around a charcoal brazier, sipping tea and dreaming of a war that doesn’t come. Their enemy, the ...

South of the Algerian town of Tindouf on the border with Western Sahara are five refugee camps. The camps are home to the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara and are administered by their freedom ...

In 2025, we mark 50 years since Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara — a colonial occupation sustained by a repressive military apparatus, a deliberate policy of demographic substitution, ...

Moroccan police violently dispersed two pro-independence demonstrations in Western Sahara over a period of 48 hours as a UN human rights delegation visited the region, rights groups said Friday. They ...

LAAYOUNE, Western Sahara, March 5 (UNHCR) - Forty Western Saharans joyfully embraced their loved ones for the first time in decades as UN agencies today started family visits through weekly shuttle ...

GENEVA, August 29 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency and World Food Programme (WFP) today made a joint appeal for more food aid and funds for some 155,000 Western Saharan refugees facing malnutrition in ...

My generation of Sahrawis grew up believing in the United Nations-led peace process. In 1991, the Sahrawi national movement, led by the Polisario, suspended the armed struggle it had waged against ...

On June 18 and 19, 2007, direct talks between the two protagonists in the Western Sahara conflict, the Kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front, were held under United Nations auspices at Greentree ...