Pakistan's foreign ministry says a group of migrants who survived the capsizing of a boat off the coast of West Africa earlier this month have begun returning to Pakistan.

Western Sahara is effectively no mans land ... But, pressure was mounting for Spain to give it up. In 1973 the PF was founded and it launched a wave of insurgency against the Spanish colonisers ...

The government of Algeria announced on Wednesday that it would “immediately” suspend its friendship treaty with Spain ... the disputed territory of Western Sahara for an additional year ...

The tragedy comes just a day after a similar incident near Morocco killed at least 50 people, including several Pakistanis.

Spanish hostage Gilbert Navarro, kidnapped in North Africa, has been freed by the Tuareg rebel alliance in northern Mali. He was expected to arrive at Algeria's Boufarik air base. The Spanish Foreign ...

In the long run, he added, this would mean recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara. Spain, for example, has already accepted Morocco's claim to the region, he said. Among all EU ...

Zardari's comments in a statement late Thursday came after a Spain-based migrant rights group ... a Moroccan-controlled port ...

Zardari’s comments in a statement late Thursday came after a Spain-based migrant rights group ... a Moroccan-controlled port city in the disputed Western Sahara. Almost all the Pakistanis who were on ...

Rabat closed its customs post with Melilla in 2018 against a backdrop of tensions linked to Spain's refusal to recognise Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony.

The boat capsized off the coast of the disputed region of Western Sahara and several of the survivors ... from NGOs regarding a missing boat, Spain's maritime rescue service said it had learned ...