Israel reiterated on Friday its recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara region after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu produced a map showing the territory as ...

More Department-authorised map of Morocco recognising the internationally-disputed territory of the Western Sahara (bearing a signature by US Ambassador to Morocco David T. Fischer) as a part of ...

Benjamin Netanyahu's office has said that the Israeli prime minister "mistakenly" displayed a map showing Western Sahara as separate to Morocco during a news conference earlier this week.

A Spanish media outlet recently reported that FIFA altered Morocco's map to exclude Western Sahara. This claim was eagerly echoed by both Algerian public and private media. However, when examining ...

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 ...

(Bloomberg) -- 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 ...

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France “considers that the present and future of Western Sahara fall within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty,” the state-run MAP news agency reported Tuesday, citing a letter from ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 28 October 2024 Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former ...

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 ...

Paris's change of heart on the question of sovereignty over Western Sahara has angered Algeria. An overview of this territory, which is in dispute between the Sahrawi people and Morocco.