We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of ...

Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. ... 1973 - Polisario Front, the indigenous Sahrawi independence movement, ...

In 1975, colonial power Spain abandoned Western Sahara, and Morocco swooped in to claim the territory as its own. Some of the indigenous Sahrawi population rebelled against their new rulers ...

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), a self-declared state representing the Indigenous Sahrawi people, ... Western Sahara was an overseas Spanish colony from the 1880s until the mid-1970s.

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

Macron is just the latest Western leader to support Rabat's position in the 50-year-old Western Sahara dispute, which has pitted indigenous aspirations for independence against Morocco's assertion ...

The ownership of Western Sahara has been contested since 1975. The indigenous Sahrawi people have lived in camps ever since. Show more The dispute over Western Sahara is one of Africa’s longest ...

For nearly 50 years, the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara has been disputed territory in northern Africa, claimed by Morocco but fought over by an Indigenous independence movement supported ...

A LMOST 50 YEARS have passed since Morocco claimed sovereignty over Western Sahara, ... Morocco’s long-standing rival, and representing the territory’s indigenous population, ...

France has backed Morocco’s autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara, shifting a decades-old position and adding itself to a growing list of countries to align with Morocco as a United ...

Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. ... 1973 - Polisario Front, the indigenous Sahrawi independence movement, ...

In 1975, colonial power Spain abandoned Western Sahara, and Morocco swooped in to claim the territory as its own. Some of the indigenous Sahrawi population rebelled against their new rulers ...