Western Sahara independence faces pushback as Morocco’s autonomy plan gains global support despite legal and environmental ...

The Polisario Front, Western Sahara's independence movement, on Sunday said it was severing ties with Spain after Madrid backed Morocco's plan giving autonomy to the former Spanish colony.

Brahim Ghali, leader of the independentist Polisario Front, in the north-east of Western Sahara on January 6, 2019 in Mehaires, Western Sahara. Stefano Montesi/Corbis/Getty Images CNN — ...

Commentary and archival information about Polisario Front from The New York Times. ... The 45-year-old fight between Morocco and separatists in Western Sahara threatens to return to outright war.

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The Polisario Front-led state, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (S.A.D.R.), had been recognized by 84 governments—though the number has fallen to 34—and the African Union as the legitimate ...

Morocco has proposed wide-ranging autonomy for Western Sahara. But the Polisario Front insists the local population, which it estimates at 350,000 to 500,000, has the right to a referendum.

PARIS (AP) — The head of the Polisario Front movement that seeks independence for the disputed Western Sahara says the group's representative to the United Nations has died after a long illness.

The leader of the Western Sahara’s independence movement has vowed to end a 29-year-old ceasefire with Morocco, citing recent Moroccan border operations as a provocation. Brahim Ghali, leader of ...

Commentary and archival information about Polisario Front from The New York Times. ... The 45-year-old fight between Morocco and separatists in Western Sahara threatens to return to outright war.