Full Coverage: Western Sahara

18.11.2009 Aminatou Haidar, winner of two US human rights awards, is on hunger strike in support of her demand that the Spanish and Moroccan authorities allow her back to Western Sahara.

29.03.2006 Campaigners claim that a leaked legal opinion from the European Parliament reinforces the need to amend a fisheries agreement with Morocoo to prevent the EU from violating international law.

03.03.2006 The Polisario Front, which has been fighting for three decades for an independent state in Western Sahaha, has begun destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines.

05.09.2002 With food stocks running low, Western Saharan refugees living in camps along the Algerian border face the threat of a humanitarian crisis, the World Food Programme warned yesterday.

29.04.2002 The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote tomorrow on a new United States-sponsored autonomy plan for the Western Sahara, which has been at the centre of a dispute for more than two decades between the Moroccan government and independence supporters of the Polisario Front.

24.04.2002 Moroccan civil society activists have joined forces to form an unprecedented alliance to press for a solution to the drawn-out conflict in the disputed Western Sahara.

31.03.2002 The United Nations Security Council hopes to find a solution to the Western Sahara conflict this month, reports Pieternel Gruppen.

18.01.2002 More than 100 Moroccan prisoners have returned home following their release by the Polisario Front.

05.07.2001 The United Nations Security Council has extended its mission in the Western Sahara by five months to allow for talks on new proposals for limited autonomy from Morocco.

26.06.2001 This "Foreign Policy in Focus" brief examines the situation in Western Sahara, where it appears that Morocco is about to be rewarded--not sanctioned--for its 1975 invasion, thanks to support from the U.S. and France.

17.05.2001 United Nations plans to resolve the 26-year-old dispute over the Western Sahara between Morocco and Polisario independence fighters is now a "laughable caricature" France's parliament has been told.

26.04.2001 Moroccan authorities have arrested two leaders of the Western Sahara's self-determination struggle to prevent them from testifying about abuses before United Nations hearings on Human Rights currently underway in Geneva, charged international humanitarian groups yesterday.

08.02.2001 A leading anti-arms trade group is poised to launch a legal challenge over the government's 1999 decision to sell gun parts to Morocco for heavy artillery in the disputed territory of Western Sahara.

21.07.2000 Preparations for a poll on the status of the contested Western Sahara area currently controlled by Morocco have been marred by splits over voter registration which risk scuppering chances for peace, according to a new United Nations report.

13.04.2000 A fresh diplomatic bid by the United Nations to solve the stand-off between Morocco and Polisario separatists in the Western Sahara is raising hopes of a settlement.

28.02.2000 A United Nations-backed poll on self-determination for the Western Sahara could be scuppered by a dispute over voter registration formalities, says UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

05.04.1999 While the conflict in Yugoslavia grabs attention on the international stage, two armies continue to sit out an uneasy cold war in the burning sands of the western Sahara.