Western Sahara Bound

Spain's top criminal court said Thursday it had archived a case involving genocide allegations against the leader of Western Sahara's independence movement. Brahim Ghali, who heads the Polisario Front, had testified before the National Court on June 1 in connection...

Quiet on the media front After reading the AFP dispatch, I spent some time searching for a US Africom press release or statement of sort, and to my surprise not much can be found. No big text, no photos, no video, except for the content that was published months ago...

The leader of Western Sahara's independence movement, whose presence at a Spanish hospital sparked a diplomatic row with Rabat, left Spain overnight and flew to Algeria, a government source said Wednesday. He's "in Algeria," the source told AFP.  Late on Tuesday,...

By Marie Giffard A Spanish judge on Tuesday declined to order that the leader of Western Sahara's movement, who is under investigation in Spain for torture and genocide, be taken into custody.  Brahim Ghali, who heads the Algeria-backed Polisario Front, denied the...