On 30 April, the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) – which has been tasked since 1991 with maintaining a ceasefire and monitoring Africa’s longest ...

The National Interest is the latest international publication to focus on the Polisario Front’s alleged ties to terrorism.

The Saharawi Youth Union, advocating for the independence of Western Sahara, together with the International Service for Human Rights, urged the UN Human Rights Council on Monday to “take action” and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the sunset call to prayer, the site guardian popped his head into the Temple of Amun and said he would ...

Western Sahara was under Spanish rule from 1958 to 1976, divided into two provinces: Rio de Oro (Oued Edhahab) and Saguia el-Hamra. As Spain began its decolonization process in the 1970s ...

In Dakhla, the Western Sahara's second city some 530 kilometres (330 miles) south of Laayoune, Dati said she is set to sign a cooperation agreement in the field of cinema and audiovisual art.

After a decades-long cease-fire crumbled in 2020, Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front have resumed fighting over the disputed Western Sahara. Tensions are again rising over Western ...

from the 19th to the 23rd to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Union General de Trabajadores de Saguia el Hamra y Río de Oro (UGTSARIO), the primary Labour Centre in Western Sahara.

Campaigners from Western Sahara have welcomed a ruling by the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) declaring that a trade deal between the European Union and Morocco over fishing rights breached their ...

The European Union’s top court has confirmed an earlier ruling cancelling trade deals that allow Morocco to export fish and farm products to the EU from the disputed Western Sahara region ...

The automated line travels across the nation of Western Sahara from the Bou Craa phosphate mine to the coastal town of El Marsa near Laayoune. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), Morocco ...

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.