The UN's new envoy for Western Sahara will travel to Morocco at the weekend as part of a regional tour aimed at kick ... before heading to Algeria and Mauritania, UN sources said.

Western Sahara is on the north-west coast of Africa between Morocco and Mauritania. Although arid and largely infertile, it possesses valuable fishing resources, and deposits of minerals ...

It fills most of Mauritania, Western Sahara ... So what's the best way of seeing the Sahara? Adventure package tours are a good introduction but, if you're thinking of travelling this way ...

He also visited Morocco and Mauritania as part of his regional tour. The Italian-Swedish diplomat is expected to brief the United Nations Security Council on the Western Sahara issue on April 14.

Tensions are rising in Western Sahara, a large strip of desert stretching along the Atlantic coast north of Mauritania. Formerly a Spanish colony, the area has been claimed for the past half ...

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.

Roughly the size of the U.S. state of Colorado, Western Sahara is a region on North Africa's Atlantic coast bordering Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania. It was colonized by Spain in 1884 and ...

1976 - Mauritania, along with Morocco, annexes part of the territory of Western Sahara. 1978 - President Daddah is deposed in a bloodless military coup after significant losses to the Polisario ...

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria, and to the west of Mauritania – has become an "intricate" and ...

One of the world's most remote railway stations is located deep in the Western Sahara along a 435-mile stretch of track. Choum railway station in Mauritania doesn't have a single platform and ...