Documentaries
3 Stolen Cameras
The members of video activist group, Equipe Media, fight to keep their cameras. They use them to document the Moroccan kingdoms’ violations of human…
Rifles or graffiti. The nonviolent struggle of the Sahrawi People
Since the ceasefire agreement in 1991 the Sahrawis have engaged in a decades long non-violent struggle against the occupation. With no political…
Life is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara
What will it take for the people of Western Sahara to reverse decades of broken promises and gain their freedom? What lessons does Sahrawi resistance…
The Sahara’s Forgotten War
VICE News travels to Western Sahara's occupied and liberated territories, as well as the Polisario-run refugee camps in Algeria, to find out more…
Gdeim Izik – The Sahrawi Resistance Camp
A documentary banned by the Moroccan monarchy. Shows the spark that ignited the so-called Arab Spring. They have taken an extraordinary documentary…
Western Sahara Determined
Western Sahara is one of the most heavily mined territories in the world following decades of conflict with its neighbours. Despite a 1991 ceasefire,…
We are Rebels
In one of the most hostile regions to human life across the planet, the Saharawi people live deprived for fundamental right to have a own land:…
Four Days in Western Sahara
In this exclusive broadcast, Democracy Now! breaks the media blockade and goes to occupied Western Sahara in the northwest of Africa to document the…
Books
Western Sahara
This series will eventually cover every country (and many of the world's principal regions), each in a separate volume comprising annotated entries…
Western Sahara: Anatomy of a stalemate?
This new edition of Western Sahara takes the story of the ongoing conflict up to the present and also looks ahead.
Spanish Sahara
The Spanish Sahara (including Rio de Oro) is a district of north-west Africa, extending in a northeasterly and south-westerly direction from the Wad…
War and Refugees: The Western Sahara Conflict
In the evolution of the organizing principle of mankind from empire to nation-state during the four decades following World War II, more than a…
Western Sahara: The roots of a desert war
The Sahara was not always a desert. Through the ages, arid and humid periods have alternated in this now scorched and desolate land. Between about…
The Western Sahara conflict: The Role of Natural Resources in Decolonization
The eternal struggle between international legality and realpolitik has produced some interesting cases in the last forty years.
The European Union Approach Towards Western Sahara
Colonialism left an indelible mark on Africa and the Sahrawi people are one of the many groups who are still reckoning with the inheritance left them…
Stories of the Sahara
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world and among the most sparsely populated, spanning 103,000 square miles of dunes and flatlands. How…
Articles
The United Nations’ Failure in Resolving the Western Sahara Conflict
Altough a peace plan was accepted by Marocco and the POLISARIO in 1988, and despite a UN presence in the Western Sahara since 1991, the world body…
The Unresolved Western Sahara Conflict and Its Repercussions
Western Sahara conflicts have yet to be definitively resolved. It now belongs to the category of “forgotten” or “frozen” conflicts. The conflict…
Western Sahara: Road to Perdition?
At the time of writing, hopes for a peacful solution to the enduring conflict of the Western Sahara are evaporating.
Natural resource exploitation in Western Sahara: new research directions
This review article provides an overview of research to date with an explicit focus on natural resource exploitation in Western Sahara.
Saharan stasis: Status and future prospects of the Western Sahara conflict
The nine-year United Nations effort to hold a "winner-take-all" referendum in Western Sahara is stalemated by fundamental difference as to who should…
Western Sahara
Having been largely forgotten, the Western Sahara conflict appeared to be heating up again in early 2012 when the German multinational, Siemens,…
Cold War Technologies, Global Fertilizers, and the Fate of Western Sahara
When, after years of geological and geophysical exploration, a phosphate mine was discovered at Bu-Craa in 1964, Western Sahara received renewed…
The Western Sahara Conflict: Regional and International Dimensions
King Hassan II of Morocco informed the French press in December 1988 that he was willing to talk to the Frente Popular para la Liberacidn de Saguia…
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