Defense and national security magazine 19FortyFive published a report titled “Breaking the Deadlock: A Strategic Framework for Resolving the Sahara Conflict,” asserting that the new U.S ...

The dispute over Western Sahara stems from the early 20th Century when rival European powers colonised different parts of North Africa. France controlled the bulk of Morocco, which became independent ...

And it’s very significant because the conflict in Western Sahara is a silenced conflict. It’s a forgotten conflict. And in Spain, our own government has taken the side of Morocco, which ...

On December 10th, Donald Trump upended over 30 years of US diplomacy with a Tweet in which he declared American support for Morocco’s claims of sovereignty over Western Sahara. Today, I signed a ...

Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975.

After a decades-long cease-fire crumbled in 2020, Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front have resumed fighting over the disputed Western Sahara. Tensions are again rising over Western ...

A second round of U.N.-mediated talks aimed at solving the Western Sahara conflict has ended with no resolution, but with an agreement by the Moroccan and the Polisario Front delegations to meet ...

2022 - Spain accepts Morocco's proposal as "the most serious, realistic and credible basis" for ending the dispute over Western Sahara. Saharawi political parties reject the proposal. 2023 ...

In 1975, colonial power Spain abandoned Western Sahara, and Morocco swooped in to claim the territory as its own. Some of the indigenous Sahrawi population rebelled against their new rulers ...

Protesters in the disputed region of Western Sahara blocked Morocco’s main trade route to West Africa, prompting a warning that a conflict suspended for three decades could reignite. Dozens of ...

The Western Sahara conflict has eluded resolution for so long that the principles underlying United Nations-led efforts to seek an enduring outcome have become muddied almost to the point of ...