Sahrawi men and women at a meeting of party leaders in Laayoune, a city in the territory of Western Sahara. Youssef Boudlal/Reuters The following interview is with Fatma El Mehdi, one of eight ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 28 October 2024 Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former ...

MINURSO (the U.N. mission for the Western Sahara) observers take note of a Moroccan drone strike on ... More a civilian vehicle on January 1st, 2024. The Moroccan army has come under attack in the ...

An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed comments made by Deputy Foreign Minister Youssef Amrani to Foreign Minister Saad-Eddine el Othmani ... role in Western Sahara’s ...

Egypt is planning to open a general consulate in the city of Laayoune in the disputed Morocco-controlled Western Sahara ... Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi instructed his foreign minister ...

In a statement to the media, on the sidelines of the inauguration on Monday of a pilot police station in Western El Marsa, Ben Jeddou added that the ministry officials meet daily with members of ...

Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975. Since then it has been the ...