WHILE the eyes of the world are fixed upon the genocide in Gaza, the 50th anniversary of another neocolonial conflict has gone relatively unnoticed. In 1975, Morocco annexed the adjacent territory of ...

To separate the different areas from each other and maintain control over the occupation, the Moroccan monarchy built a 2700-kilometer wall across Western Sahara.

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

In the Western imagination, the Sahara is an empty space, a state of nature. Some locals shared this view before Europeans discovered the savannah south of the sands. Ibn Khaldun, the polymath ...

Two Mauritanian gold miners died yesterday in a bombing carried out by a drone from the Royal Armed Forces (FAR). According to a media outlet based in Zouerate, the victims were in a vehicle ...

Four explosions in the city of Smara in Morocco-controlled Western Sahara late on Saturday killed one man and injured three others, Moroccan local authorities said.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon suggested that Morocco may have been spying on the world body's monitoring force in the disputed territory of Western Sahara and hampering its ability to ...

Last straw checkerboard placed at Badain Jaran Desert completes 1,856km green belt that also runs across the Tengger and Ulan Buh deserts China has completed a sand control belt spanning three deserts ...

GENEVA - Today the UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres and the Personal Envoy of the Secretary General for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, wrapped up a meeting with Morocco and the ...