UNITED NATIONS — 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. Staffan ...

The United Kingdom on Sunday became the latest country to back Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara. During a visit to Rabat, Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the plan was ...

The French presidency of the United Nations Security Council has scheduled a special session on the Western Sahara issue, set to take place on April 14, according to the provisional program ...

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria ...

Western Sahara is a strip of coastal desert rich in phosphates and fish that the United Nations has considered a “non-self-governing territory” throughout almost 50 years of dispute.

We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of ...

He breaks down MINURSO (the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) and provides to the reader the background, proposed goals, and the state of the political situation, or ...

Since 1991, the United Nations has led a series of fruitless efforts to resolve the standoff over Western Sahara. A swath of desert about the size of the entire United Kingdom, Western Sahara is ...

My generation of Sahrawis grew up believing in the United Nations-led peace process. ... suspended the armed struggle it had waged against Morocco since it occupied Western Sahara in 1975.

Morocco has occupied Western Sahara since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community.

The United Nations, with 193 member states, excludes entities like Taiwan, Kosovo, and Western Sahara due to geopolitical reasons and historical conflicts. These regions have self-governance and ...

France has backed Morocco’s autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara, shifting a decades-old position and adding itself to a growing list of countries to align with Morocco as a United ...