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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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.

Western Sahara: Why has fighting returned to north-west Africa?Western Sahara: Why has fighting returned to north-west Africa ...

Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony annexed by Morocco in 1975. The United Nations brokered a cease-fire between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front, which is supported by ...