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The forgotten refugees of Western Sahara
Omar is seated on a carpet in his father's tent. He was born here, the 21-year-old says – here in…
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Benin
Benin, officially the Republic of Benin and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, and Burkina…
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Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola (Portuguese: República de Angola; Kikongo, Kimbundu and Umbundu: Repubilika ya Ngola), is a west-coast country of south–central Africa. It is the seventh-largest country in Africa, bordered…
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Sahrawi people
The Sahrawi, or Saharawi people, are the people living in the western part of the Sahara desert which includes Western Sahara (claimed by the Polisario and mostly controlled…
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Languages of Africa
The languages of Africa are divided into six major language families: Afroasiatic languages are spread throughout Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and parts of the Sahel.…
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Western Sahara War
The Western Sahara War was an armed struggle between the Sahrawi indigenous Polisario Front and Morocco between 1975 and 1991, being the most significant phase of the Western Sahara…
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Tunisia
Tunisia (officially the Republic of Tunisia) is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa, covering 165,000 square kilometres (64,000 square miles). Its northernmost point, Cape…
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Algeria
Algeria, officially the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North–west Africa. The capital and most populous city…
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French protectorate in Morocco
The French protectorate in Morocco (French: Protectorat français au Maroc; Arabic: حماية فرنسا في المغرب Ḥimāyat Faransā fi-l-Maḡrib) was established by the Treaty of Fez. It existed…
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Saadi dynasty
The Saadi dynasty or Saadian dynasty (Arabic: السعديون as-saʿadiūn) was an Arab Moroccan dynasty, which ruled Morocco from 1549 to 1659. From 1509 to 1549, they had ruled only in…
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Marinid dynasty
The Marinid dynasty (Berber: Imrinen; Arabic: المرينيون Marīniyūn) or Banu abd al-Haqq was a Sunni Muslim dynasty of Zenata Berber descent that ruled Morocco from the 13th to the 15th century. In 1244, the Marinid…
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Alaouite dynasty
The Alaouite dynasty, or Alawite dynasty (Arabic: سلالة العلويين الفيلاليين, Sulālat al-ʿAlawiyyīn al-Fīlālīyn), is the current Moroccan royal family. The name Alaouite comes from the ‘Alī of ‘Alī…
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Almohad Caliphate
The Almohad Caliphate, “the monotheists” or “the unifiers”) was a Moroccan Berber Muslim movement and empire founded in the 12th century. The Almohad movement was…
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Almoravid dynasty
The Almoravid dynasty was an imperial Berber Muslimdynasty centered in Morocco. It established an empire in the 11th century that stretched over the western Maghreb and Al-Andalus. Founded by Abdallah ibn…
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Idrisids dynasty
The Idrisids were an Arab Zaydi–Shia dynasty of Morocco, ruling from 788 to 974. Named after the founder Idriss I, the great-grandchild of Hasan ibn Ali, the Idrisids are considered…
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