Western Sahara independence faces pushback as Morocco’s autonomy plan gains global support despite legal and environmental ...

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 has been on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories since 1963 following the transmission of information on Spanish Sahara by Spain under Article 73 e of the ...

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 ...

Western Sahara has been disputed by Morocco and the national liberation movement since the 1970s. After an unsuccessful referendum in 1991, the territory’s legal status remains contentious.

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 Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony in northwest Africa that is roughly the size of the United Kingdom and claimed by both Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front, which is ...

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria, and to the west of Mauritania – has become an "intricate" and ...

At the same time as Morocco agreed to normalize relations with Israel as part of the so-called “Abraham accords” (not that Morocco necessarily saw the deal in these terms), Trump officially recognized ...

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 five-decades-old dispute ...

But in 2007, Morocco began pushing instead for Western Sahara to be granted limited autonomy – while remaining under its sovereign authority. This was an alternative to the full independence claimed ...