"One of the more difficult places to visit is the sparsely populated territory known as Western Sahara," writes John P. Smith ...

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.

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

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

His claims not only reduced a long-standing diplomatic position but also downplayed the institutional weight of his own ...

Ghana said on Thursday it views a Moroccan autonomy plan as the sole basis to settle the Western Sahara dispute within the framework of the UN, aligning itself with a growing number of Western, ...

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 ...

Rabat - Liberia and Ecuador have both reaffirmed their strong support for Morocco’s sovereignty over its southern provinces ...

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 ...

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

Click through and find out why the Western Sahara is so hotly disputed.

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.