French Culture Minister Rachida Dati visited the disputed Western Sahara on Monday during a trip to Morocco to strengthen cultural ties with the North African nation. Dati and a delegation of ...

Algeria on Tuesday denounced a visit by French Culture Minister Rachida Dati to Western Sahara, after Paris recognised Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed territory, as "objectionable on ...

France’s diplomatic stance on Western Sahara has undergone a seismic shift, with three consecutive high-level visits to the region signaling what can only be described as a clear break from Paris’s ...

We are connected by the roots, by the blood, by the language, by the culture. As somebody who travels a lot, I left the camps, I came back to the camps, you know. It's like, when I was growing up as a ...

Saharawi Youth Union, advocating for the independence of Western Sahara, and the International Service for Human Rights urged the UN Human Rights Council on Monday to 'take action' and uphold its ...

An Algerian court sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal to five years in prison, causing diplomatic tensions between France and Algeria. France has expressed regret and called for Sansal's ...

The council was reacting to a visit to Western Sahara by French Senate speaker Gérard Larcher on Monday. The Algerian council described the visit as “irresponsible, provocative and ostentatious”.

Last week I was part of a delegation from the all-parliamentary Western Sahara group to visit the Moroccan-occupied territory, with John Hillary of War on Want and John Gurr of the Western Sahara ...

Polisario Front’s Australian representative Kamal Fadel has urged Fortescue not to undermine United Nations decolonisation efforts by making a deal with the occupation government in Western Sahara.

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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 ...