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.

Wind energy projects in southern provinces in the Western Sahara region in southern Morocco have attracted massive ...

The party has called on the country’s government to draw lessons from Morocco’s accumulated experience and expertise across ...

A correction was made to the Freedom of Speech section of the Morocco and Western Sahara Chapter to specify that Fouad Abdelmoumni was released on November 1, 2024.

We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of ...

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 ...

"One of the more difficult places to visit is the sparsely populated territory known as Western Sahara," writes John P. Smith ...

ALMOST 50 YEARS have passed since Morocco claimed sovereignty over Western Sahara, a slice of land that stretches for 900km along the Atlantic coast to the country’s south. The Polisario Front ...

In response to Paris’ support for Morocco's claim of sovereignty over Western Sahara last week, Algeria is refusing to take back citizens who have been handed deportation orders by France, a ...

Western Sahara is today one of these centers of resistance, confronting a global system of domination upheld by capital and alliances between local elites and foreign powers.

Located in north-west Africa, just 140 kilometers from the Canary Islands, Western Sahara is a desert landscape with an arid climate. Since 1973, the POLISARIO liberation front has been fighting ...

The United Kingdom is shifting its stance on the disputed Western Sahara, backing Morocco's plan to offer its people limited autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty.