Explosions struck a city in a Moroccan-controlled part of the Western Sahara, killing at least one person and signaling a potential flare-up in one of Africa’s most protracted territorial disputes.

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 ...

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

The Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), a U.K. and Ireland-based pressure group, says it has made a formal complaint to the Irish government about oil exploration firm San Leon Energy and its ...

An arid region where less than one-fifth of the land is used for agriculture, Western Sahara is home to phosphate and iron ore reserves and is believed to have untouched offshore oil deposits.

France recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over the Western Sahara, a historic shift that may spur more investment in the disputed mineral-rich territory but inflamed tensions with neighboring Algeria.

When Africa was carved up in the late 1800s Western Sahara came under Spanish colonial control and was known as Spanish Sahara. Later, France acquired a protectorate over most of the region.

SITUATION REPORT: WESTERN SAHARA: OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS April 2003 Oil fields found off the coast of the of Western Sahara have raised the profile of this disputed territory. Among the first ...

Kosmos Energy, a Texas oil company, is preparing to drill for oil in Western Sahara, a disputed territory currently controlled by Morocco. The company has dispatched a state of the art oil rig to ...

Western Sahara's Polisario independence movement said it will ask EU and French authorities to seize the cargo of a ship it accused of illegally transporting marine oil from the Moroccan ...

France continues to update its official data on Morocco following its recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara. After publishing the kingdom’s complete map, including the southern ...

After decades of predictions that the world is close to peak oil, it’s pretty clear that isn’t true. Fracking, tar sands, and new offshore wells are all flowing freely. The oil industry ...