MINURSO (the U.N. mission for the Western Sahara) observers take note of a ... and that the U.S. and Europe view Morocco’s occupation as already consummated. The Polisario Front would be ...

The scandal has also exposed how Morocco has tried to lobby and bribe members of the European Parliament in attempt to increase support for its illegal occupation of Western Sahara, which is known ...

the monitoring and public reporting of the maltreatment of those protesting the occupation. The U.N. mission in Western Sahara is one of the only ones of its kind to lack a human rights monitoring ...

And Western Sahara — its formal name is the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic — has been recognized by well over 80 countries. It’s a full member state of the African Union.

The occupation of Western Sahara is not only military or political — it is profoundly economic. Morocco uses the occupied territories as a means of managing its domestic labor surplus ...

It betrayed Western Sahara by standing idly by while its people were invaded, bombed, forced into exile, divided by a wall, and persecuted by a brutal Moroccan occupation. These are crimes for ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon regrets a “misunderstanding” over his use of the word “occupation” to describe Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara, which led to Morocco expelling doz ...

“You don’t feel the occupation here, you can say what you want, but they are living as refugees. My joy will be complete when we transfer it all to Western Sahara, when everyone can come to ...

The North African country has been locked in a war of words with the U.N. secretary-general since Ban described Western Sahara as under "occupation" during a visit to Algerian refugee camps for ...

Protestors hold Western Sahara flags in Bordeaux ... after Morocco’s military invasion and continuing partial occupation of Africa’s last colony. The Dec. 11 news article “In U.S.-backed ...

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon regrets his use of the word "occupation" to describe Moroccan rule in the disputed Western Sahara territory, according to his spokesman. Ban made the comments ...

The Australian Western Sahara Association protested near the FIFA Women’s World Cup match between Morocco and Germany, calling for an end to sport washing. Kerry Smith reports. 50 years of Western ...