The UN's new envoy for Western Sahara will travel to Morocco at the weekend as part of a regional tour aimed at kick ... before heading to Algeria and Mauritania, UN sources said.

It fills most of Mauritania, Western Sahara, Mali, Algeria, Niger, ... £19.99) and runs occasional 4WD and supported motorcycle tours in the Sahara (www.sahara-overland.com) ...

Western Sahara is on the north-west coast of Africa between Morocco and Mauritania. Although arid and largely infertile, it possesses valuable fishing resources, and deposits of minerals, oil and gas.

He also visited Morocco and Mauritania as part of his regional tour. The Italian-Swedish diplomat is expected to brief the United Nations Security Council on the Western Sahara issue on April 14.

Tensions are rising in Western Sahara, a large strip of desert stretching along the Atlantic coast north of Mauritania. Formerly a Spanish colony, the area has been claimed for the past half ...

Western Sahara was an overseas Spanish colony from the 1880s until the mid-1970s. Mauritania and Morocco both laid claim to the territory after Spain withdrew, partitioning it between them.

1979 - Mauritania gives up its claims to Western Sahara. 1981 - Mauritania becomes the last country in the world to outlaw slavery. 1989-91 - Mauritania-Senegal Border War.

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 ...

One of the world's most remote railway stations is located deep in the Western Sahara along a 435-mile stretch of track. Choum railway station in Mauritania doesn't have a single platform and ...

The UN's new envoy for Western Sahara will travel to Morocco at the weekend as part of a regional tour aimed at kick-starting talks on ending the decades-old conflict over the disputed territory.