The Polisario Front has issued a stern warning regarding the proposed opening of a new commercial crossing between Morocco and Mauritania. In a statement by Bachir Mustapha Sayed, the Front has ...

Western Sahara's pro-independence Polisario Front launched an overnight attack on the Guerguerat area on the border between Morocco and Mauritania, the Saharawi press agency SPS said in a ...

The pro-independence Polisario Front declared a three-decade-old ceasefire in disputed Western Sahara was over on Friday after Morocco launched an operation to reopen the road to neighbouring ...

Saharan Rebel Peace Move. The Polisario Front, a rebel group fighting for the independence of Western Sahara, said today that it had handed over 185 Moroccan prisoners of war to the Red Cross.

On Saturday, a Mauritanian security official and a senior Moroccan official said separately that truck traffic between Mauritania and the Western Sahara had resumed.

The conflict ignited after Spain’s colonial withdrawal from the region in 1975, leaving Mauritania, Morocco and the Polisario Front in an entrenched conflict over the sovereignty of the territory.

UN-led negotiations involving Morocco and the Polisario, with Algeria and Mauritania as observers, have been suspended since March 2019. The Polisario Front fought a war for independence from ...

President Emmanuel Macron said Paris would support Morocco’s plan, which gives the disputed territory limited autonomy but keeps it under Moroccan control. By Aida Alami and Aurelien Breeden ...