GENEVA, February 10 (UNHCR) - Talks in Geneva between Morocco and the Polisario Front movement have produced agreement on expanding confidence-building measures to benefit tens of thousands of ...

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 the 25th anniversary of establishing an exile government for the Polisario - the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro - the BBC radio reported that the thousands of ...

Sahrawis walk in the desert in the Western Sahara. The region is a former Spanish colony that was annexed in 1975 by Morocco. The indigenous Sahrawis and their self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic ...

DAKHLA CAMP, Algeria | For decades, the Western Sahara liberation movement, known as the Polisario Front, has been locked in a struggle for independence from Morocco. It’s not a battle of guns but of ...

It has been dubbed the world’s oldest functioning security barrier, but is also called a “wall of shame” by Western Sahara residents and leaders who want independence from Morocco. “I was raised ...

Activists in Western Sahara are calling for renewed solidarity from Palestinians after Israel recognised Morocco’s sovereignty over the disputed region. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on ...

Speaking to Yabiladi, Sahrawis, including former members of the Polisario, shared their thoughts on the new resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council on Friday, October 31, concerning ...

There is nothing remotely romantic about their part of the desert, writes Mary Raftery. One of the hottest places on the planet, known as "the oven of the earth", it is hard to imagine how anyone ...

LAAYOUNE, Western Sahara – For Hatra Aram and her children, “home” is just a patch of rough floor and brick walls in what was once a block of apartments in downtown Laayoune, a city 1,100 km south of ...

Update: Morocco’s Court of Cassation on July 27 quashed the Military Court conviction of 25 Sahrawi civilians for their alleged roles in violent clashes in Western Sahara in November 2010 that cost ...