Kenya also backed a Moroccan initiative offering landlocked Sahel states access to global trade through its Atlantic ports.

Covering nearly a third of a continent, the Sahara has been the scene of migrations, military battles and fights over natural ...

In a time when anti-colonial rhetoric has become a rallying cry across parts of Africa, particularly in the Sahel, the ...

The Saharawi Youth Union, advocating for the independence of Western Sahara, together with the International Service for Human Rights, urged the UN Human Rights Council on Monday to “take action” and ...

Since 1991, the United Nations has led a series of fruitless efforts to resolve the standoff over Western Sahara. A swath of desert about the size of the entire United Kingdom, Western Sahara is ...

French Culture Minister Rachida Dati began a visit on Monday to the disputed Western Sahara, a sign of French support for Moroccan sovereignty over the desert territory. The long-frozen conflict ...

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 ...

After a decades-long cease-fire crumbled in 2020, Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front have resumed fighting over the disputed Western Sahara. Tensions are again rising over Western ...

In October of this year, trade unionists, anti-capitalists and activists from around the world gathered in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, from the 19th to the 23rd to mark the ...

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NEW YORK, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The U.N. envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, has floated the idea of dividing the territory between Morocco and the Polisario front as a solution to the near ...

Campaigners from Western Sahara have welcomed a ruling by the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) declaring that a trade deal between the European Union and Morocco over fishing rights breached their ...