Morocco has finished building a sand barrier in a U.N.-monitored buffer zone in Western Sahara, Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Otmani told Reuters on Tuesday, after the Polisario Front independence ...

RABAT, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Four explosions in the city of Smara in Morocco-controlled Western Sahara late on Saturday killed one man and injured three others, Moroccan local authorities said.

The group fighting for Western Sahara’s independence warned it may ramp up military attacks as Morocco looks to consolidate control of the disputed territory after securing US and French backing.

MOROCCAN SOLDIERS are seen on an earth wall that separates areas controlled by Morocco and the Polisario Front in Western Sahara, in 2016. ... Western Sahara is Moroccan.

Morocco has occupied Western Sahara since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community.

Israel recognised Morocco's sovereignty over the region in 2023 following a normalisation deal between the two countries in 2020, which also saw the US recognise Western Sahara as part of Morocco.

Protesters with the Moroccan flag in Paris in 2016. France had previously argued that Morocco’s plan for autonomy for Western Sahara was a “serious and credible” basis for discussion, but ...

RABAT (Reuters) -Four explosions in the city of Smara in Morocco-controlled Western Sahara late on Saturday killed one man and injured three others, Moroccan local authorities said. The judicial ...