Topic: Western Sahara
Western Saharan rebels have detained people implicated in the October kidnapping of three Europeans in Algeria, the APS agency quoted rebel officials as saying on Thursday."They were acting on behalf of a criminal organisation unknown until now," Khatri Eddouh, president of ...
MADRID (Reuters) - Two Spanish aid workers and an Italian kidnapped from a Sahrawi refugee camp in western Algeria have been shown on a video recording, the first time pictures of the three have been since they were captured in October, Spain's ...
Mauritanian police said Monday they had arrested two Western Saharan men suspected of kidnapping an Italian and two Spanish aid workers in Algeria in October."The two men who kidnapped two Spaniards and an Italian in a Sahrawi refugee camp were arrested ...
Suspected Islamist militants kidnapped two Spaniards and an Italian working at a refugee camp in western Algeria overnight, officials and security sources said Sunday.A colleague of one of the Spanish hostages said over Spanish radio that "several gunshots were heard" and ...
Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem on Tuesday took up the cause of Western Sahara at the United Nations, demanding action to end human rights abuses and allow a self-determination vote in the disputed territory.Bardem was to speak to the UN General Assembly ...
Seven people, including two policemen, were killed in fighting that broke out after a weekend football match in Dakhla, a Western Sahara port city, Morocco's state MAP news agency said Tuesday.The previous reported toll from Sunday's violence was two ...
A military transport plane slammed into a mountainside in bad weather in southern Morocco on Tuesday, killing all 80 people on board, hospital and military sources said.King Mohammed VI announced three days of national mourning following the crash, one of the ...
Ambassadors from Four US Administrations Urge Sec. Clinton to Maintain Support for Morocco's Democratic Reforms and Compromise Plan to End the...
Sec. Clinton Calls Morocco "Well-Positioned to Lead" on Democratic Reforms; Affirms U.S. Support for Moroccan Autonomy Plan as "Serious, Realistic...
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