Morocco has finished building a sand barrier in a U.N.-monitored buffer zone in Western Sahara, Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Otmani told Reuters on Tuesday, after the Polisario Front independence ...

I brought some Sahara sand home and have it in a perfume bottle on my desk to remind me of my short time among the dunes. It’s the desert base camp to which I wish to return in Morocco.

Morocco’s partisans, regular or irregular, were not going to get the Spanish Sahara and its oil (if any) without a fight. More Must-Reads from TIME Inside Elon Musk’s War on Washington ...