In an October 2024 briefing to the UN Security Council, Staffan de Mistura, the secretary-general’s Western Sahara envoy, ...

File Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy In 1979, snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first known time. It fell a second time in 2016 and a third time in 2018.

The long-standing conflict over Western Sahara—a resource-rich but sparsely populated desert region—traces its origins to the ...

The vast desert territory is a former Spanish colony ... autonomy plan was the "only basis" to resolve the Western Sahara dispute. Algeria has backed the separatist Polisario Front and cut ...

In recent years, Algeria has conducted mass deportations of sub-Saharan migrants. For instance, in 2017, Amnesty International reported that over 2,000 sub-Saharan migrants were expelled within a ...

Algeria’s Council of the Nation said Wednesday it had decided to “immediately” suspend all ties with the French Senate, including a parliamentary cooperation protocol signed between the two ...

In the fall of 1987, Philippe Haas accompanied the sculptor Richard Long to the Algerian Sahara and filmed him tracing with his feet, or constructing with desert stones, simple geometric figures ...

RABAT, Feb 17 (Reuters) - French Culture Minister Rachida Dati began a visit on Monday to disputed Western Sahara where she ... Moroccan sovereignty over the desert territory.

Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony controlled by Rabat but claimed by the Algeria-backed Polisario Front. In July, France became the second permanent UN Security Council member after the ...

The Algerian upper house of parliament has suspended relations with its French counterpart, the Senate, following a visit by its speaker to Western Sahara, a territory that France recognises as part ...

Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony controlled by Rabat but claimed by the Algeria-backed Polisario Front. In July, France became the second permanent UN Security Council member after the US ...