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. Since then it has been the ...

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 ...

Algeria pulls its ambassador to France after Paris throws is support behind Morocco's stalled plan to establish limited autonomy for Western Sahara. The move puts France at odds with Algiers ...

It concluded that Western Sahara was not a terra nullius (nobody’s land) at the time of Spain’s colonisation and that strong, historical ties connected Morocco to the tribes living there.

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.