U.N. Warns of Hunger Among Western Sahara Refugees

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: United Nations agencies struggle to mobilize resources for Sahrawi refugees in Algeria, Malawians await the results of a recent presidential election, and Egypt reportedly...

We Through The Wall opens its new home in Denia

Members of the NGO We Through The Wall in the Sahara. Credit: WTTW Instagram On Friday October 24 at 7pm, the international organisation We Through The Wall (WTTW) will celebrate the opening of its new headquarters in Spain, with a special event...

European Lawyers and Sahrawi human rights defenders mark 50 Years of Western Sahara occupation with joint call for action

Brussels (Belgium) 16 September 2025 (SPS)— On the 50th anniversary of the Moroccan illegal occupation of Western Sahara, the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) and the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights...

Geneva Support Group for Western Sahara calls for urgent protection of Sahrawi rights and respect of the rights to self-determination

Geneva (UN Human Rights Council) 12 September 2025 (SPS) – The Permanent Representative of the United Republic of Tanzania to the UN in Geneva, H.E. Abdallah Saleh Possi, speaking on behalf of Geneva Support Group for Western Sahara, a...

Minister of Culture receives delegation from Italian Solidarity Movement

Shaheed Hafed, September 27, 2025 (SPS) - Minister of Culture, Mousa Selma, received Friday a delegation from the Italian Solidarity Movement, which is currently leading a working and solidarity visit to the Sahrawi refugee camps. The delegation...

Family prepares for funeral as Mthethwa’s body arrives in KZN

The body of former police minister Nathi Mthethwa on Friday arrived in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal ahead of his burial tomorrow. Mthethwa, who died after falling from the 22nd floor of a Paris hotel, was serving as South African ambassador...

The Sahrawi Movement for Peace participates in United Nations sessions on the Sahara

Full statement by Hach Ahmed Bericalla, the First Secretary of the Movement Saharawi for Peace (MSP) during the Fourth Committee of the United Nations on the new resolution on Morocco's Autonomy Plan for Western Sahara proposed by the North...

Colonialism, post-colonialism and Western Sahara: rebuilding Africa's fractured geographies

Introduction: beyond colonial cartographies The coloniality of power and the fragmentation of the Sahara Sovereignty as a historical relationship, not a colonial invention The poetics of resistance: liberation as narrative Feminist and ecological...

Sahrawi activist describes energy projects in occupied Sahrawi territories as "bloody"

Berlin (Germany), September 24, 2025 (SPS) – A member of the Sahrawi Community Association in Germany, Amma Lahbib, affirmed that the issue of exploiting natural resources in Western Sahara through green hydrogen production projects represents a...

Exclusive: Sahrawi Movement Says Polisario’s Struggle Is Irrelevant, Doomed to Fail

Marrakech – For half a century, the Polisario Front has claimed to be the “sole and legitimate representative” of the Sahrawis, an exclusivity imposed under Algeria’s patronage and maintained by force rather than democratic consent. This monopoly...

Geneva panel warns Polisario exploits human rights to justify child recruitment

HESPRESS English – Morocco News Politics Hespress ENSaturday 20 September 2025 - 12:31 At a side-event held alongside the 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Dakhla-based Center for the Prevention of Child Soldier...

Geneva: NGOs denounce serious violations against children & women in Tindouf camps

Non-governmental organizations sounded the alarm on Friday before the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva over serious violations committed by polisario separatists against children and women in the Tindouf camps in southwestern...

Moroccan Diplomat Says Israel Has ‘Golden’ Opportunity to Define Polisario as Terrorist Organization

Marrakech – Moroccan diplomat Chaimae Bouazzaoui declared November a “golden month” for strengthening Morocco-Israel relations, urging Tel Aviv to define Polisario as a terrorist group in an article published on Israel Hayom last Tuesday....

Uganda at 63: Independence, integration, and the road ahead

President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni officiates the spudding (Commencement of Drilling) of Kingfisher Oilfield wells in Buhuka, Kyangwali, Kikuube District. POil presents Uganda with a major opportunity for capital formation through skilling,...

Minister of Education and Vocational Training launches school year from wilaya of Smara

Wilaya of Smara, September 15, 2025 (SPS) - The Minister of Education and Vocational Training, a member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, Abdelkader Taleb Omar, on Sunday officially launched the 2025/2026 school year from the...

Protest in Agadir Over ‘Catastrophic’ Hospital Conditions After Six Women Die Under ‘Questionable’ Care

Rabat – Hundreds of citizens and civil society groups gathered on Sunday evening in front of Hassan II Regional Hospital in Agadir to protest what they described as the “catastrophic” state of health services at the facility. The protesters,...

Sahrawi movement urges end to 'five decades of suffering,' supports Morocco’s autonomy plan before UN

The “Sahrawis for Peace Movement,” a group that split from the separatist Polisario Front, called on the international community from a United Nations platform to help end what it described as “five decades of Sahrawi suffering” through a new...

Organization of Sahrawi Cultural Festival in Vitoria, Spain

Vitoria (Spain), September 14, 2025 (SPS) – The city of Vitoria, the capital of the Basque Country hosted, Saturday in the city's Lariaga Park, a distinguished cultural festival organized by the "Desierta" Association, which brings together a...

HRC60: Joint NGO end-of-session statement

The 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council has just concluded. Civil society organisations reflected on progress made—and the critical gaps that remain. Read the full version below. On 12 March 2025, Secretary-General António Guterres...

San Diego lawsuit aims to prohibit ICE arrests outside immigration courtrooms

A class-action lawsuit is challenging the Trump administration’s practice of arresting people upon exiting their immigration court hearings, as has occurred in several cities, including San Diego, over the past several months — although local...