Western Sahara independence faces pushback as Morocco’s autonomy plan gains global support despite legal and environmental ...

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 ...

In 1975, Morocco effectively annexed Western Sahara by staging the Green March—a peaceful procession of 350,000 Moroccans who walked into the region and claimed it as their own.

Western Sahara was an overseas Spanish colony from the 1880s until the mid-1970s. Mauritania and Morocco both laid claim to the territory after Spain withdrew, partitioning it between them.

Mauritania's Foreign Minister, Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug, met with Staffan de Mistura, the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, on Tuesday, May 20, at the Mauritanian ...

We’re also at the anniversary of the accords whereby Madrid agreed to hand over Western Sahara to Mauritania and Morocco in 1975. So it’s a very strange situation we’re in right now with ...

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.

The U.S. NGO Freedom House ranks Western Sahara was one of the least free places on earth. In Moroccan-controlled areas, pro-independence sentiment is violently suppressed the imprisonment and ...