The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria ...

For Morocco's King Mohammed VI, this summer could go down in history. For five decades, the Western Sahara, a territory to the south of the country, has been at the center of a conflict which ...

Western Sahara has four women ministers, including me and two female governors, and women represent 34 percent of our parliament. We have a quota of at least 25 percent female representation in ...

Dakhla refugee camp, southwestern Algeria—Tchlaz Bchere has visited Western Sahara, the land she calls her rightful home, only once.Born and raised in a refugee camp in the remote desert expanse ...

Drinking sweet green mint tea — lots of it — is an essential transaction while doing business in Western Sahara. But green tea consumption is a relatively recent tradition in North Africa.

Basic Facts. Population*: 612,000; Land area*: 266,000km²; Listing as a Non-Self-Governing Territory. Western Sahara has been on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories since ...

To show that Western Sahara formed part of its national territory, Morocco had to produce evidence of authority at the time of Spain’s colonisation and immediately before it.

A demonstration in Malaga, Spain, last month in support of Sahrawi rights in Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) On Dec. 10, President Trump upended 45 years ...

The Western Sahara conflict has also driven up tensions within the African Union, whose decision to grant membership to the SADR in 1984 led Morocco to withdraw from the bloc.

Morocco will clear the main highway linking Western Sahara to Mauritania that has been blocked since Oct. 21 by supporters of the Polisario independence movement, it said on Friday.

For Morocco's King Mohammed VI, this summer could go down in history. For five decades, the Western Sahara, a territory to the south of the country, has been at the center of a conflict which ...

In 2007, Morocco submitted its Autonomy Initiative to the UN, proposing that Western Sahara manage its own internal affairs, while Morocco retains control over defence, foreign policy and currency.