The map of Morocco, including Western Sahara, is visible in red on pages 18, 26, and 92. Occasionally, a legend obscures part of Western Sahara, or a zoom-in excludes the southernmost part of the ...

As passed, Resolution 2285 pushed lightly on Rabat to allow MINURSO to be restored to full-strength, and calls on U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to report back within ninety days on the matter.

A supporter of the Polisario Front and Western Sahara waves a flag reading “Free Sahara,” Logrono, Spain, June 8, 2021 (AP photo by Alvaro Barrientos). Maps have long played a crucial ...

Human rights conditions deteriorated overall in 2009 in Morocco, although the country continued to have a lively civil society and independent press. The government, aided by complaisant courts ...

Rabat (AFP) – Morocco, locked in a decades-long struggle with the Polisario independence movement for control of the Western Sahara, has offered limited self-government there -- but insists ...

To stake Morocco’s claim on Western Sahara, the current king’s father, Hassan II, sent 350,000 civilian volunteers on the Green March into the territory in 1975 to protest and demand that ...

He proposed no new ideas for resolving the impasse other than promoting the UN’s peacekeepers known as Minurso, or Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara. The referendum idea harks back to 1991, ...

And Western Sahara — its formal name is the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic — has been recognized by well over 80 countries. It’s a full member state of the African Union.

President Donald Trump has hailed Morocco’s agreement to begin normalizing relations with Israel in return for US recognition of Morocco’s illegal annexation of the Western Sahara, which ...

Morocco, locked in a decades-long struggle with the Polisario independence movement for control of the Western Sahara, has offered limited self-government there -- but insists Rabat must keep ...