Indeed, MINURSO has not been able to conduct a population census in the Tindouf camps, nor has it organized a referendum in Western Sahara—an option that the UN abandoned in 2001. The mission ...

As MINURSO approaches its 35th anniversary, its relevance in the Western Sahara issue is being called into question. Originally established to organize a referendum that never materialized ...

The UN, which maintains a peacekeeping mission in the Western Sahara, MINURSO, said it made attempts to convince all parties to avoid an escalation of hostilities and preserve the ceasefire but ...

A Spanish think tank report suggests the United States under President Donald Trump’s returned administration is moving ...

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 ...

The Security Council is to vote later in April 2013 on renewing the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission for Western Sahara, known as MINURSO. MINURSO is one of the few modern UN peacekeeping ...

Q: What is your reaction to Resolution 2468 on the Sahara, which the Security Council adopted on Tuesday and which highlights the Moroccan autonomy proposal? A: France is pleased by the adoption of ...

The U.N.'s Mission for the Referendum in the Western Sahara (MINURSO in its French acronym) has nevertheless retained its name, even though its purpose has evolved into a military mechanism to ...

On April 29, 10 of the 15 U.N. Security Council members voted to renew the mandate for the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), one day before its expiration.

The Western Sahara issue “remains a matter of decolonisation” between Morocco and the Polisario Front, Ambassador Amar ...

Morocco annexed Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony believed ... mission charged with carrying out the referendum, known as MINURSO, until Oct. 31, 2023. The resolution calls on the parties ...