Here are key dates in the history of the Western Sahara, as the United Nations prepares to convene talks in Geneva on the disputed territory's future status on Wednesday. The former Spanish colony is ...

The Saharawi Youth Union, advocating for the independence of Western Sahara, together with the International Service for Human Rights, urged the UN Human Rights Council on Monday to “take action” and ...

In Dakhla, the Western Sahara's second city some 530 kilometres (330 miles) south of Laayoune, Dati said she is set to sign a cooperation agreement in the field of cinema and audiovisual art.

Ambassador Mouloud Said, the representative of Western Sahara in Washington, disputed Morocco’s claims of sovereignty over the territory at a Harvard Law School event on Monday. At the Law ...

After a decades-long cease-fire crumbled in 2020, Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front have resumed fighting over the disputed Western Sahara. Tensions are again rising over Western ...

NEW YORK, Oct 17 (Reuters) - 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 ...

The European Union’s top court has confirmed an earlier ruling cancelling trade deals that allow Morocco to export fish and farm products to the EU from the disputed Western Sahara region ...

Western Sahara has long been scene of territorial dispute Friday's decision is final ruling after several appeals Morocco said the ruling was politically biased Polisario Front representative ...

Benjamin Netanyahu's office has said that the Israeli prime minister "mistakenly" displayed a map showing Western Sahara as separate to Morocco during a news conference earlier this week.

France “considers that the present and future of Western Sahara fall within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty,” the state-run MAP news agency reported Tuesday, citing a letter from ...

President Emmanuel Macron said Paris would support Morocco’s plan, which gives the disputed territory limited autonomy but keeps it under Moroccan control. By Aida Alami and Aurelien Breeden ...