Western Sahara Travel News

A A A' An award-winning Western Sahara independence activist who has been on a nearly two-week hunger strike since Morocco expelled her from the disputed territory is so weak she can hardly stand or speak, supporters said Saturday.

Aminatou Haidar talks about Western Sahara during an interview with AP in Washington Human rights officials say Morocco has expelled one of the leading independence campaigners for the disputed territory of Western Sahara.

Morocco's King Mohamed has called for action against traitors who threatened the country's "territorial integrity", a direct warning to Western Sahara independence campaigners.

RABAT: Morocco ordered on Wednesday the immediate departure of a Swedish diplomat accused of handing official Moroccan documents to Western Sahara-linked "separatists," the Foreign Ministry said.

Last week a delegation of MPs visited Downing Street to highlight the plight of Western Sahara's 165,000 refugees, homeless since being forced from their lands by Moroccan forces in 1975.

Eighteen years ago today, the Polisario Front laid down their arms, ending a 16-year war with Morocco.

Morocco will take part in a limited-person meeting in Austria on Aug. 9 to 11, at the invitation of UN Secretary General's Special Envoy Christopher Ross, to seek a permanent solution to the issue of Western Sahara, state MAP news agency quoted Moroccan Foreign Ministry as saying.

Morocco will take part in a limited-person meeting in Austria on Aug. 9 to 11, at the invitation of UN Secretary General's Special Envoy Christopher Ross, to seek a permanent solution to the issue of Western Sahara, state MAP news agency quoted Moroccan Foreign Ministry as saying.

STUDENTS from North Africa have been prevented from travelling to Oxford for a conference, the organisers said today.