The only difference is that the Western Sahara flag has a red crescent and star in the middle. “The black color symbolizes the occupation.

Polisario, which still controls a third of Western Sahara, is recognised by the United Nations as the legitimate representative of the indigenous Sahrawi people. So, who should control Western Sahara?

Within Africa, the independence of Western Sahara—or what is known as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), according to the Polisario Front—is widely acknowledged.

Flag of the Saharawi Republic (SADR) was raised at top of many buildings in many Australian cities to mark the 38th anniversary of the proclamation of SADR, informed Polisario Front's office there.

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 ...

Western Sahara — the next desert storm Betrayed by Spain and oppressed by Morocco, the Saharawi people of Western Sahara compare themselves the Palestinians or the black majority in apartheid South ...