Developers hope that a $1.2 billion megaproject in Dakhla, Western Sahara, could become a maritime hub for worldwide trade.

South of the Algerian town of Tindouf on the border with Western Sahara are five refugee camps. The camps are home to the ...

Weeks after the Moroccan navy intercepted their boat en route to Spain’s Canary Islands, 18 Senegalese migrants say they are ...

To put it simply, a desert is a large dry area of land with little or no vegetation. Deserts are characterized with extreme ...

British MPs and Lords sign open letter calling on the UK to back Rabat's autonomy plan for the disputed area Morocco says its ...

There is still an overriding belief that their lives here are temporary and that they will eventually return to Western Sahara, a belief shared even by those who have never seen their homeland.

The Western Sahara conflict has persisted for decades, with Morocco and the Sahrawi people, led by the Polisario Front movement, engaged in a protracted struggle. Following a 15-year war for ...

Many migrants arriving from Mauritania report having been abused and abandoned in the desert by Moroccan security forces who ...

A UN insider told Hespress that Alexander Ivanko, head of the UN Western Sahara mission (MINURSO), has been using his dual identity – both Russian and a trusted UN figure – to influence Russia’s ...

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A soccer politics dispute between Algeria and Morocco over a map of disputed Western Sahara territory on a team jersey will go to a full appeal hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.