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***Online News (See below)

• ARSO: Association de Soutien à Un Référendum Libre et Régulier au Sahara Occidental (via Switzerland)
  • ARSO Home Page
    This site has many useful links to current news and related sites. See also:
    Online News and Western Sahara Online below.
  • Western Sahara: Thematic Bibliography = Bibliographie thematique
    Updated in 2006. In English or French. "This is a list of important or original or recent books, publications, scientific articles, reports, photo albums, films, videos, broadcasts, etc. listed by topic."
• Human Rights Watch on Western Sahara (New York)
  • HRW on Morocco/Western Sahara: recent briefs, press releases, reports, etc.
    
  • News release: "Western Sahara: Long-Term Prisoners Await Justice," November 8, 2022
    
  • Human rights in Western Sahara and in the Tindouf Refugee Camps: Morocco/Western Sahara/Algeria (December 2008). 216 pages in PDF format
    
  • Western Sahara: keeping it secret, the United Nations operations in the Western Sahara (October 1995). Human Rights Watch. (Online) ; vol. 7, no. 7.
• Le Monde Diplomatique Archives: Sahara Occidental, 2006- (Paris)
  Aussi, on peut rechercher << Sahara occidental >> dans les archives.
• Museo Nacional del Pueblo Saharaui (1997) (Universitat de Girona, Biblioteca, Spain)
  Breves reseñas, con imágenes y mapas, sobre la prehistoria, la historia, la cultura tradicional y el arte Saharaui.
• National Union of Sahrawi Women Home Page (via ARSO--Association de soutien à un référendum libre et régulier au Sahara Occidental)
  "The National Union of Sahrawi Women (NUSW) is a people's organisation of all the women of the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic SADR, created in 1979 on the initiative of the POLISARIO Front. Today the NUSW has 10,000 members in the refugee camps in Tindouf, the occupied and liberated areas of the Western Sahara and living abroad as Saharawi emigrants, organised in local and regional offices."
• Online News on Western Sahara
  • AllAfrica.Com: Current and Recent News Summaries on Western Sahara (AllAfrica Global Media, Washington, DC)
    News summaries based on reports from UN agencies, ARSO, other NGOs, and other sources. Warning: the searchable archive for articles older than 30 days is only available through subscription.
  • Sahara-Info.Org. (Online): Bulletin de l'Association des Amis de la République Arabe Sahraouie Démocratique. -- Paris: AARASD, 1976- En format PDF.
  • Sahara Press Service -- Agence de presse de la République Arabe Sahraouie Démocratique. (Tindouf, SADR)
    Current news in English, French, Arabic, and Spanish from a variety of sources...plus documents and related links. The archives are accessible only via subscription.
  • See also: UN News Center = Centre de Nouvelles ONU below
• Sahara, en busca de la independencia -- 30 años del Frente Polisario (via Elmundo, Madrid, Spain)
  
• United Nations on Western Sahara
  • UN News Center = Centre de Nouvelles ONU (New York)
    --"Ouverture de troisième cycle de pourparlers sur le Sahara occidental" (le 8 janvier 2008)
    --Rapports et communiqués du 9 octobre 2007 au 3 janvier 2008
  • MINURSO: UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara - Current Reports (New York)
  • UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, September 1991-July 1995 (via George Mason University)
    
  • UN Secretary-General Reports on Western Sahara, 1994- (via ARSO)
• United States Agencies on Western Sahara (Washington, DC)
  • United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics: US-Western Sahara, 1992 to present
    
  • United States. Central Intelligence Agency. World Factbook: Western Sahara (2020)--Search the Archives
    
  • United States. Department of State: Western Sahara/Morocco Country Report on Human Rights Practices:
    2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019
    --Search by country for years: 1996-1999 -and- 1999-2015
  • United States Institute of Peace -- Special Reports on "Western Sahara" (Washington, DC)
    -- Western Sahara: The Failure of "Negotiations Without Preconditions" (April 2010) by Anna Theofilopoulou.
    
    -- Western Sahara--How to Create a Stalemate (May 2007) by Anna Theofilopoulou.
    --The United Nations and Western Sahara: A Never-ending Affair (July 2006) by Anna Theofilopoulou.