The UK has joined other European countries in endorsing Morocco's position in the Western Sahara conflict. Algeria and the independence-seeking Polisario are losing out.

Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra remains politically sensitive. It is part of the Western Sahara region challenged by the Polisario ...

In a controversial shift, the UK and Kenya recently endorsed Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara in return for investment deals, disregarding the Sahrawi people's internationally recognized ...

Today, Iran, usually acting either through its proxies, Hezbollah, Palestinians Jihad, and the Houthis, as well Hamas, which ...

As the southerly flow develops this week, there will be some Saharan dust pushing widely across the UK from later on ...

Celebrated by global audiences, African cultural and creative industries could become the continent's next gems. Yet this ...

Lower consumption in China, the trade war, and an oversaturated market are taking a toll on the sector, which has lost 50 ...

The United Kingdom and other “administering powers” should set aside their national interest to support self-determination ...

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 ...

In April 2011, the mandate of MINURSO - the United Nations (UN) Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, which has been tasked since 1991 with maintaining a ceasefire and monitoring Africa's ...

Several areas south of Sudan's capital Khartoum are at risk of famine, the World Food Programme said on Tuesday, with need on ...

The Western Sahara is the most sparsely populated territory in Africa, much of it desert. On the surface, it appears to have ...