The 45-year-old fight between Morocco and separatists in Western Sahara threatens to return to outright war. By recognizing Moroccan sovereignty, the U.S. has taken sides for the first time. By ...

The leader of the Western Sahara’s independence movement has vowed to end a 29-year-old ceasefire with Morocco, citing recent Moroccan border operations as a provocation. Brahim Ghali, leader of ...

Since 1975, there have been several sprawling refugee camps in the middle of the Sahara Desert, 30 miles outside a small Algerian military outpost town called Tindouf. About 165,000 Saharawi ...

For Morocco's King Mohammed VI, this summer could go down in history. For five decades, the Western Sahara, a territory to the south of the country, has been at the center of a conflict which ...

Letter From Western Sahara, ... the 30-year-old activist has ... the refugees built four camps in the desert and named them after cities in the Western Sahara. While most of the men left to ...

When we speak about Western Sahara, we speak about the final frontier of decolonisation in Africa, a situation for which Spain holds direct responsibility; the rich North African territory was ...

The U.N. envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, has floated the idea of dividing the territory between Morocco and the Polisario front as a solution to the near five-decades-old dispute ...

Experts on North Africa convened at CAP on May 11 to discuss how Morocco’s recent initiative for Western Sahara might present a way forward in resolving the 30-year-old Western Sahara dispute ...

The size of Britain, Western Sahara is sparsely populated with phosphate reserves and rich fishing grounds. Morocco staked a claim to the territory while it was under Spanish colonial rule.

03 August 2004 Trouble between Algeria and Morocco is not related to the Western Sahara territory alone. The feud is at least 42 years old when in the immediate aftermath of Algeria's accession to ...