For 40 years, the Saharawi people have been exiled from their homeland, cast out into what is known as the “desert of deserts”, where they live in hope of one day experiencing a long-awaited return to ...
MADRID (Reuters) - Astonished by squalid conditions he saw when he first travelled to Saharawi refugee camps in southwestern Algeria four years ago, Spanish actor Javier Bardem has told the story of ...
El Aaiun (Saharawi Republic) — Saharawi Organ against the Moroccan Occupation (ISACOM- in its Spanish abbreviation), affirmed attachment to the right of the people of Western Sahara to freedom and ...
“The hardest thing is when people ask me where I’m from,” Najla Mohamedlamin Salma, 27, tells me. “It’s such a long story.” With her rich North African accent and colorful hijab, Najla cuts an ...
Fatma Maulud is a Saharawi from the Western Sahara. Like most Saharawis she is a Muslim. But unlike most Muslim women, Fatma has been divorced twice and is now on her third husband. Divorce is not ...
Talking about music might sound strange for people who live in refugee camps and are deeply burdened with many other problems needing to be voiced. But the huge role music played in the Saharawi ...
Western Sahara can only be described as a police state. I was there recently with the first British parliamentary delegation to the occupied territory and everywhere we went we were closely shadowed ...
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Arusha, Tanzania has in a landmark judgment held that “the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara is a serious violation of the right to ...
As a Saharawi, I would like to address Eddarhem’s notion of Western Sahara’s myth, which is an idea that Morocco never invaded Western Sahara, a myth that remains a painful reality since more than 40 ...
The Saharawi government pledged to honour Aremu’s memory by continuing the liberation struggle with renewed vigour. The Embassy of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic has expressed deep sorrow over ...
Yahya Mohamed, 55 years old and father of three children, has been in prison for 14 years; he was arbitrarily arrested by Morocco for his activism, forced to confess under torture, tried and deprived ...
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