Concerns over security in west and north Africa are finally drawing attention to Western Sahara (UN chief warns of conflict 'timebomb', 10 April). This week's recognition by the UN secretary general of the "ever-pressing need for independent, im ...
UN secretary general says al-Qaida-backed Islamists may try to recruit from refugee camps in disputed territoryThe conflict in Mali could be creating a "ticking time bomb" for neighbouring Western Sahara, the UN secretary general has warned ...
A new map designed by the Dutch firm LUSTlab for World Women's Day illustrates exactly how far women's rights have come in recent years -- and how far, in some places, they still have to go. The interactive map (clickable version here) shows when w ...
The territory of Western Sahara lies at the heart of a dispute between Morocco and the Sahrawi people. Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem explains why he feels passionately about the issue and why the world must act. ...
It's time the US and the UN stopped looking the other way while the west's ally Morocco occupies and abuses the SarahawisThe Arab Spring began in the Western Sahara. In late 2010, the indigenous Saharawi population of this territory demonstrated agai ...
Iron Sky, which imagines Nazi invasion from secret moon base, sells more tickets than Werner Herzog and Angelina Jolie filmsThere are a lot of worthy films premiering at the Berlin film festival over the coming 10 days. A three-and-a-half-hour epic t ...
(Sandblast/Believe Digital)If they weren't stranded in refugee camps in the desert in south-west Algeria, Tiris would surely be one of the success stories of north Africa. They are an eight-piece band of Saharawis, who fled from the upheavals in thei ...
When it comes to school dinners, pizza is a vegetable, according to the US governmentAn extra helping of sprouts? Or that well known vegetable ... pizzaWhere America goes, Britain so often follows blindly at their heels. But Cribsheet is determined t ...
Two Spaniards and an Italian were kidnapped overnight in Algeria from a Western Sahara encampment where they were providing aid, officials said Sunday. ...
- Violence erupted following victory by Moroccan club - Territory has been occupied by Morocco since 1975Seven people were killed in a riot following a football match in the disputed Western Sahara region, the Moroccan state news agency reported o ...
