VALENCIA — Sahara means “desert” in Arabic. A Sahrawi, then, is someone from the desert. That’s why the people of Western Sahara are known today as Sahrawi — both those still under ...

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.

Western Sahara remained a Spanish colony until 1975 when the Moroccan government organized a so-called “Green March” with 350,000 protesters marching into Western Sahara to ... Desert Camps ...

MINURSO (the U.N. mission for the Western Sahara) observers take note of a Moroccan drone strike on ... More a civilian vehicle on January 1st, 2024. The Moroccan army has come under attack in the ...

Ghana said on Thursday it views a Moroccan autonomy plan as the sole basis to settle the Western Sahara dispute within the framework of the UN, aligning itself with a growing number of Western ...

Basic Facts. Population*: 612,000; Land area*: 266,000km²; Listing as a Non-Self-Governing Territory. Western Sahara has been on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories since ...

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 ...