Defense and national security magazine 19FortyFive published a report titled “Breaking the Deadlock: A Strategic Framework for Resolving the Sahara Conflict,” asserting that the new U.S ...

And it’s very significant because the conflict in Western Sahara is a silenced conflict. It’s a forgotten conflict. And in Spain, our own government has taken the side of Morocco, ...

The dispute over Western Sahara stems from the early 20th Century when rival European powers colonised different parts of North Africa. France controlled the bulk of Morocco, which became independent ...

Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975.

On December 10th, Donald Trump upended over 30 years of US diplomacy with a Tweet in which he declared American support for Morocco’s claims of sovereignty over Western Sahara. Today, I signed a ...

The Western Sahara conflict has also driven up tensions within the African Union, whose decision to grant membership to the SADR in 1984 led Morocco to withdraw from the bloc.

Western Sahara: The Forgotten Conflict at Risk of Re-Escalation. Published May 14, 2016 at 4:10 AM EDT Updated Jun 13, 2016 at 2:16 AM EDT.

Horst Koehler, envoy of the U.N. secretary-general for Western Sahara, talks to reporters after a two-day round of talks on ending the Western Sahara conflict, at U.N. offices in Geneva, March 22 ...

In 1975, colonial power Spain abandoned Western Sahara, and Morocco swooped in to claim the territory as its own. Some of the indigenous Sahrawi population rebelled against their new rulers ...

Protesters in the disputed region of Western Sahara blocked Morocco’s main trade route to West Africa, prompting a warning that a conflict suspended for three decades could reignite.

Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975. Since then it has been the ...