The United States' recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara last year has emboldened Rabat to take a harder line with European states on the issue - an approach ...

Riot police block demonstrators during a job protest after two miners died while working in a clandestine coal mine, in Jerada, Morocco, December 27, 2017. Demonstrating increasing intolerance of ...

Morocco and the Polisario traded accusations of new mine use in Western Sahara. According to a UN report, in May 2001 the Royal Moroccan Army destroyed about 3,000 antitank mines and 37,000 ...

Since 1991, the United Nations has led a series of fruitless efforts to resolve the standoff over Western Sahara. A swath of desert about the size of the entire United Kingdom, Western Sahara is ...

Western Sahara is the native land of Sahrawis, or “People of the desert,” in northern Africa. The Moroccan government has moved some 300,000 settlers into these territories, and this triggered ...

Israel will soon announce its support for Morocco's claim of sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara region, Israeli parliament speaker Amir Ohana said on Thursday during a visit to Rabat.

Ever since then Morocco’s top foreign policy priority has been to exert pressure on European governments to follow suit, writes Shannon Ebrahim. Pressure to toe Morocco’s line on Western ...

The United States has reaffirmed its recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara, in line with the position communicated by former President Donald Trump to King Mohammed VI in 2020.

Recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara could further strengthen economic ties, encouraging British investment in sectors like infrastructure, agriculture, and mining, underscored the ...

Israel on Monday announced its recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara territory, a former Spanish colony located just south of the North African nation.