U.S. and Moroccan flags next to a map of Morocco recognizing the territory of Western Sahara. (Str/AFP/Getty Images) Stephen Zunes is a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco and ...

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

In 1991, the UN mission to Western Sahara was established to resolve the dispute via negotiations and organize a referendum on the territory’s future—to remain a part of Morocco, become an ...

This month, US Congress passed the 2015 Appropriations Bill. Among other provisions, the new law strengthens US mandate for assistance to Morocco to be used in Western Sahara. The law says ...

And in the case of Western Sahara, remember, Western Sahara, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, has been recognized by over 80 nations around the world and is a full member of the African Union.

It is thus fitting we recognize their sovereignty over the Western Sahara.” But the annexation is not accepted by most countries, nor by the Polisario Front, which fought Morocco for control of ...

US recognised Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara. ... which could foreshadow his administration’s intent to recognize Israel’s annexation of Palestinian land,” McCollum, ...

Israel announced Monday it was recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, joining the United States as the only countries to acknowledge the kingdom's annexation of the disputed North ...

Zunes, Stephen “Trump’s deal on Morocco’s Western Sahara annexation risks more global conflict,” Washington Post, December 15, 2020 https: ...

France says it is committed to the rules-based order. In the Morocco-Western Sahara conflict, it chose short-term political benefits instead. The post France's Shift on Western Sahara Comes With a ...