Greece buses 2,000 refugees from border camp to Athens
Makeshift camp at Macedonian border emptied in largely peaceful operation, but aid workers predict chaos at capital’s sports stadiums
November 2015
Desert schools bloom in Sahrawi refugee camps – in pictures
Forty years after Morocco annexed the western Sahara following the withdrawal of Spain’s forces, tens of thousands of Sahrawi refugees still live in camps around Tindouf in Algeria
Ancient river network discovered buried under Saharan sand
Radar images of the Mauritanian desert have revealed a river stretching for more than 500km and suggest plants and wildlife once thrived there
40 years of suffering for Sahrawi refugees from Western Sahara
Letters: While the current refugee crisis across Europe makes headlines, the people of Western Sahara have been experiencing a refugee crisis for 40 years
September 2015
Greenslade
Moroccan journalist writes again after a 10-year legal ban
He dared to describe people displaced from Western Sahara as ‘refugees’
August 2015
Mariem Hassan obituary
Singer whose protest songs on behalf of her Sahrawi people in north Africa brought her international recognition
July 2015
Kerry Kennedy: Morocco has pressured UN to ignore Western Sahara
Kerry Kennedy
The president of Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights accuses Moroccan government of widespread abuses in Western Sahara
June 2015
Toy Soldiers by Simon Brann Thorpe review – a powerful meditation on war
Leaked cables: Morocco lobbied UN to turn blind eye to Western Sahara in 'House of Cards' operation
March 2015
Western Sahara's ‘conflict tomatoes’ highlight a forgotten occupation
Morocco’s control of the ‘last colony in Africa’ is at the centre of campaigners’ legal challenge to the labelling of Saharan produce and the tax breaks it receives
January 2015
Western Sahara’s stranded refugees consider renewal of Morocco conflict
Sahrawi people still await UN-brokered self-determination vote almost 40 years after the annexation of their homeland
September 2014
Sahara Soul review – the true spirit of the desert
Some of West Africa’s top musical talent throw an easy-going desert party, while headliner Aziza Brahim paid moving tribute to the region’s troubles
May 2014
Guardian Africa network
FiSahara 2014: sharing Sahrawi stories at the world's most remote film festival
Now in its 11th year, the festival known as the 'Cannes of the desert' aims to reassure refugees exiled from Western Sahara that they have not been forgotten, says Stefan Simanowitz
April 2014
Boycott Morocco plea to UK tourists over Western Sahara 'abuses'
The UK should press for UN monitoring of human rights in Western Sahara
February 2014
Poverty matters blog
Western Sahara activists feel full force of Moroccan intimidation
Moroccan security forces use heavy-handed tactics to repress Saharawi organisations and campaigns for independence
July 2013
Women on frontline in struggle for Western Sahara
Unusually for a Muslim country, Sahrawi women are leading the disputed territory's fight for independence from Moroccan rule
April 2013
Western Sahara and human rights
Letters: The continued failure to enforce international law prolongs instability in the region
Mali conflict could spill over into Western Sahara, warns Ban Ki-moon
UN secretary general says al-Qaida-backed Islamists may try to recruit from refugee camps in disputed territory
Western Sahara: the world's forgotten refugees – video
The refugee camps of the Western Sahara are home to more than 200,000 refugees of a conflict that has been forgotten by the world
