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 ...

This would also put at risk economic activity in the occupied territory, which is of relevance to Europe.

During his visit last week, Ambassador Beisat was received by the Nigerian Foreign Minister, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar.

Denied independence in 1975 after former colonial power Spain carved up the territory between Morocco and Mauritania, Western Sahara is known as Africa’s last colony — that is, what the United ...

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

In a never-enacted agreement, Mauritania ceded the southern part of Western Sahara to Polisario when it withdrew in 1979. Former envoy James Baker floated partition more than two decades ago.

A new dynamic in parliamentary diplomacy is emerging across West and North Africa with the creation of an alliance bringing ...

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.

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), also known as Western Sahara, has ramped up calls on the global community to exert more pressure on the Kingdom ...

As dusk fell on the edge of Nouakchott, Kayo the husky left a trail of paw prints in the warm Sahara sand, an incongruous yet increasingly familiar sight in Mauritania.

He said it was Spain that, 50 years ago, rather than grant independence to Western Sahara, handed it over to Morocco and Mauritania as a war booty.

In a never-enacted agreement, Mauritania ceded the southern part of Western Sahara to Polisario when it withdrew in 1979. Former envoy James Baker floated partition more than two decades ago.