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 ...

In a climate of growing instability across the globe, Morocco and Azerbaijan have taken deliberate steps to reinforce their ...

Former South African president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party has expressed support for Morocco’s claim over Western Sahara, sparking controversy within the African National Congress (ANC) — ...

Western Sahara, located in northwest Africa, has been classified by the U.N. as a "non-self-governing" territory since 1963. Following Spain's withdrawal, ...

For more than six decades, the people of Western Sahara have been denied their inalienable right to self-determination. The Moroccan “autonomy plan” is not a path to peace — it is a ...

The Western Sahara conflict has also driven up tensions within the African Union, whose decision to grant membership to the SADR in 1984 led Morocco to withdraw from the bloc.

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 ...

Western Sahara has been disputed by Morocco and the national liberation movement since the 1970s. After an unsuccessful referendum in 1991, the territory’s legal status remains contentious.

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.

The population of the Spanish Sahara, now called the Western Sahara, is estimated to be around 632,200 in an area the size of Colorado, about 97,344 square miles.

Algeria, which borders both Morocco and Western Sahara, has actively supported the Polisario and is home to more than 100,000 Sahrawis living in refugee camps, as well as the Polisario’s leadership.