Indeed, MINURSO has not been able to conduct a population census in the Tindouf camps, nor has it organized a referendum in Western Sahara—an option that the UN abandoned in 2001. The mission ...

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 ...

As MINURSO approaches its 35th anniversary, its relevance in the Western Sahara issue is being called into question. Originally established to organize a referendum that never materialized ...

In April 2011, the mandate of MINURSO - the United Nations (UN) Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, which has been tasked since 1991 with maintaining a ceasefire and monitoring Africa's ...

The UN, which maintains a peacekeeping mission in the Western Sahara, MINURSO, said it made attempts to convince all parties to avoid an escalation of hostilities and preserve the ceasefire but ...

The Western Sahara issue “remains a matter of decolonisation” between Morocco and the Polisario Front, Ambassador Amar ...

The Security Council is to vote later in April 2013 on renewing the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission for Western Sahara, known as MINURSO. MINURSO is one of the few modern UN peacekeeping ...

The U.N.'s Mission for the Referendum in the Western Sahara (MINURSO in its French acronym) has nevertheless retained its name, even though its purpose has evolved into a military mechanism to ...

Q: What is your reaction to Resolution 2468 on the Sahara, which the Security Council adopted on Tuesday and which highlights the Moroccan autonomy proposal? A: France is pleased by the adoption of ...

MINURSO (the U.N. mission for the Western Sahara) observers take note of a Moroccan drone strike on ... More a civilian vehicle on January 1st, 2024. The Moroccan army has come under attack in the ...

Rabat - Senegal has once again confirmed its strong support for Morocco’s Autonomy Plan as a solution to the Western Sahara ...