News about Western Sahara, ... In the Sahrawi refugee settlement, which has been in Western Algeria since 1975, baking workshops are building community bonds and health awareness.

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 ...

The Western Sahara resolution, building on existing policy frameworks, offers an achievable victory that can generate momentum for broader regional initiatives.

Western Sahara was an overseas Spanish colony from the 1880s until the mid-1970s. ... Diplomatic pressure could be building for an end to the conflict.

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.

Western Sahara remained a Spanish colony until 1975 when the Moroccan government organized a so-called “Green March” with 350,000 protesters marching into Western Sahara to claim the land.

In the stretch of Western Sahara under Polisario Front control, the constant buzz of drones is now a continuous and maddening fact of life. Sidate Side Bahia and Naim Ahmed Salm Ibarki remember ...

The Western Sahara dispute began in 1975 ... WSRW published an investigation in 2021 suggesting Morocco spends most of the EU's funds and revenues on building settlements for Moroccan fishermen in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beyond Western Sahara, the visit injected fresh energy into bilateral ties. Several concrete steps were agreed upon. The two sides signed a memorandum of understanding on political consultations to ...

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 ...