Western Sahara Archives

Horst Koehler, a former German president who has been the United Nations special envoy for Western Sahara since last year, is bringing the parties to the longstanding conflict over that region to a roundtable meeting in Geneva soon. Koehler expressed his intent last summer to bring all the relevant players together by the end of … Read more

WORLDVIEWS

The UN’s Three Main Bodies Are Failing to Do Their Job

October 23, 2016October 11, 2016 by Mona Ali Khalil

“Those who seek to bestow legitimacy must themselves embody it, and those who invoke international law must themselves submit to it.” So spoke United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the 59th session of the UN General Assembly on Sept. 22, 2004. Annan’s statement should be understood to apply to the principal organs of the … Read more

BOOKS

UN Peacekeeping: A Portrait of More Than 50 Years

December 29, 2015December 28, 2015 by Helmut Volger

For many people in the world, the United Nations is often associated with peacekeeping, one of the most visible activities of the world body in its efforts to maintain international peace and security. Peacekeeping was created in the late 1940s and developed over decades into an ambitious instrument to contain severe political and military conflicts, … Read more

Mostly, Sahrawi Women Just Want to Go Home

March 30, 2016March 5, 2015 by Johanna Higgs

NEAR TINDOUF, Algeria — Our goal was to understand the dynamics of women who live in the refugee camps here in the Sahara Desert, where tens of thousands of Sahrawi people reside in tents and mud-brick buildings, having fled their homeland up to decades ago. The camps originated in 1975-1976, when the Sahrawis first escaped … Read more

Western Sahara: A Chance for Change or to Stay Stuck in Time

August 24, 2018April 10, 2013 by Dulcie Leimbach

MINURSO Monitors Ceasefire in Western Sahara

The saga of Western Sahara, a disputed territory that has been stuck in limbo in North Africa for decades, will receive its annual nod this month by the United Nations Security Council, but this time actual changes may be afoot if the council acts more decisively, particularly on human-rights matters. Christopher Ross, the UN secretary-general’s … Read more

The US Is Driving the New Talks on Western Sahara, Involving Morocco and Algeria

The UN’s Three Main Bodies Are Failing to Do Their Job

UN Peacekeeping: A Portrait of More Than 50 Years

Mostly, Sahrawi Women Just Want to Go Home

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