Ambassador Mohamed Zrug inaugurates international seminar in Caracas with lecture on Western Sahara: “Colonialism, Unfinished Decolonization, and Resistance”

Caracas, October 3, 2025 – With the lecture entitled “The Case of Western Sahara: Colonialism, Unfinished Decolonization, and Resistance,” Ambassador Mohamed Zrug inaugurated on Thursday the International Seminar on Colonialism, Anticolonialisms,...

Western Sahara at a crossroads

The evolution of the Western Sahara conflict The Sahrawi Movement for Peace as a third way Spain's key role in the resolution New perspectives for Sahrawi self-determination Regional repercussions of the conflict The diplomatic scenario towards...

In a letter to the Security Council, Frente POLISARIO UN Representative rebuts the claims of the representative of the occupying state

New York (United Nations), 2 October 2025 (SPS) – Dr SidiMohamed Omar, Member of the National Secretariat and Representative of the Frente POLISARIO at the United Nations and Coordinator with MINURSO, addressed today a letter to Ambassador Vassily...

Malainin Lakhal: “The Moroccan occupation will never erase history nor Sahrawi sovereignty over Western Sahara”

Algiers (Algeria) 29 September 2025 (SPS) – The Deputy Permanent Representative of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to the African Union and Sahrawi writer, Malainin Lakhal, stated to the magazine of the Foundation for the Promotion of Rights,...

EU scrambles to save Morocco deal with controversial Western Sahara clause

The Commission has proposed amending its trade deal with Morocco to comply with an EU court ruling on the disputed territory of Western Sahara, according to a document obtained by Euractiv. Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony mostly occupied...

Separatist Provocation: Polisario Flag in Melilla Strikes at Morocco’s Heart

Marrakech – Few acts could carry greater symbolic weight than the display of a Polisario/ self-styled Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) flag in the Spanish-administered city of Melilla, a city already entangled in the crosscurrents of...

Cuba Reaffirms Support for Western Sahara’s Self-Determination at UN

Sahrawi people. X/ @PamphletsMaoist September 26, 2025 Hour: 9:38 am On Thursday, Cuba reiterated its support for the cause of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) during a meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly’s...

British man to honour partner by walking 5,000 miles to Ghana with her ashes

A British man, Daniel Forrester, is set to walk from Romford, England, to Kumasi, in the Ashanti Region carrying the ashes of his late partner Caroline Sarpong, to fulfil the last promise he made to her and also raise money for the hospice that...

Western Sahara’s Polisario Movement: Manufacturing a Threat to Global Security?

Executive Summary: Founded in 1973, the Polisario Front remains a UN-recognized secular liberation movement seeking independence from Moroccan rule. U.S. legislators are considering labeling the Sahrawi independence movement a terrorist group,...

Morocco's crimes in Western Sahara fit definition of genocide

Madrid, 18 September 2025 (SPS) - Morocco has committed crimes in Western Sahara that fit the definition of genocide, asserts Spanish writer and journalist Victoria Garcia Corera, recalling that in 2015 a Spanish magistrate clearly described the...

In UN Human Rights Council: NGO accuses Morocco of systematic arbitrary detentions in Western Sahara and calls for UN’s action

Geneva (UN Human Rights Council) 18 September 2025 (SPS)– The Al-Basher Foundation for Development, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status with the United Nations, sounded the alarm over what it describes as the “ongoing...

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...

Timeline of Morocco’s Youth Protests

Rabat — Protests embroiled Morocco since the early weeks of September. They aim for widespread reform, spanning from employment to corruption to healthcare, and resulted on Friday in a call for Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch to step down and...

Western Sahara: South Africa Still Not Over Zumba’s Visit, Support for Morocco

Rabat – South Africa’s government continues to grumble over former President Jacob Zuma’s remarkable visit to Morocco, where he announced support for Morocco’s Autonomy Plan for the Western Sahara dispute. Ronald Lamola, South Africa’s Minister of...

Polisario’s Armed Kidnappings of Mauritanian Miners Expose Separatist Gang’s Face

Marrakech – The mask has fallen. The Polisario Front has once again revealed itself as nothing more than an outlaw militia masquerading as a political movement. Armed elements of the separatist group stormed the gold-mining zone of El Malhate on...

Prime Minister calls for mobilizing all efforts to elevate level of media discourse and counter hostile propaganda

Shaheed El Hafed, September 23, 2025 (SPS) - Member of the National Secretariat, Prime Minister, Mr. Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun, called today, Tuesday, at the headquarters of the National Television, for mobilizing all energies and exerting more...

Polisario gunmen reportedly kidnap Mauritanian miners near border

Armed members of the Polisario Front allegedly stormed a miners’ camp in northern Mauritania on Wednesday, abducting several workers and seizing a vehicle, according to local Hespress AR sources. The incident took place in the “Malhat” area,...

Western Sahara: At a time of decision, the UN is called upon to integrate the Sahrawi Movement for Peace as a central player

International consensus on Moroccan autonomy The credibility of the UN put to the test The Sahrawi Movement for Peace: a new Sahrawi legitimacy A moment of truth As pressure mounts on the UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy, Staffan de Mistura,...

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...

Post-Coloniality and Western Sahara: Stitching Back Together Africa’s Broken Geographies

The incompleteness of decolonization is not only a matter of borders, flags, and treaties. It is also, and above all, a matter of imagination: who tells the story, who defines belonging, and who controls the symbolic cartographies of space. As the...