UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the Western Sahara for another year Thursday with Algeria refusing to vote in ...

Catastrophic malnutrition rates now plague the Polisario-run, Algerian-controlled Tindouf camps, according to a new UN ...

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria, and to the west of Mauritania – has become an "intricate" and ...

1957 - Newly-independent Morocco lays centuries-old claim to Western Sahara. 1965 - The UN calls for the decolonisation of Western Sahara. 1973 - Polisario Front, ...

The United Nations envoy for the Western Sahara on Monday called on the Security Council to capitalize on what he called momentum toward resolving the long-standing conflict in the territory. The ...

Western Sahara has been at the heart of disagreements between Morocco and Algeria. Spain, the former colonial power in Western Sahara, said in 2022 it backs Morocco's autonomy plan.

The U.N. envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, has floated the idea of dividing the territory between Morocco and the Polisario front as a solution to the near five-decades-old dispute ...

Western Sahara is a region in northwest Africa that the United Nations has considered a “non-self-governing” territory since 1963, when it was a Spanish colony, and considers Polisario the ...

The United Nations, a key player in the Western Sahara issue, said that its approach ‘will remain unchanged’ following France’s recent endorsement of Morocco’s Autonomy Plan. Stéphane ...

The Saharawi Youth Union, advocating for the independence of Western Sahara, together with the International Service for Human Rights, urged the UN Human Rights Council on Monday to “take action” and ...

UN extends mandate for UN peacekeepers in Western Sahara, with Algeria protesting over human rights The U.N. Security Council has voted to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy to Western Sahara suggested dividing the territory between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front as a way to settle the decades-long conflict.