Western Sahara is a mineral-rich former Spanish colony that Morocco marched into and occupied when Spain withdrew in 1975, leaving a power vacuum. Local Saharawi people have long campaigned for ...

In a little-known 1957 conflict, Moroccos Liberation Army staged a bold offensive against Spanish colonial rule in Ifni and ...

Spanish society is well aware of their government’s responsibility toward Western Sahara. Few expected that, 47 years after its first betrayal, Spain would cede the territory to Morocco once again.

The Spanish government has clarified its position on the Sahara issue for the military. The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a note outlining the guidelines to be followed by all ...

But as European colonialism began to divide Africa between them, several countries tried to colonize Western Sahara, but faced strong resistance from the population. At the Berlin Conference in 1884, ...

Soldiers from the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army parade at a ceremony marking 40 years since the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic was declared in 1976 in the disputed territory of Western Sahara ...

Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony claimed by Morocco, ... The Moroccan Army is pushing ever farther into the desert the Great Wall of the Sahara, now more than 400 miles long.

The sudden increase in migrants has intensified the diplomatic conflict between Morocco and Spain over the disputed Western Sahara region and created a humanitarian crisis for Ceuta, the Spanish ...

Morocco’s $1.3bn Atlantic Initiative aims to link Sahel nations to the ocean via Western Sahara, despite coups, rivalries, ...

Western Sahara has been on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories since 1963 following the transmission of information on Spanish Sahara by Spain under Article 73 e of the ...

Israel on Monday announced its recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara territory, a former Spanish colony located just south of the North African nation.