Morocco annexed Western Sahara, ... Mounting tensions have reverberated across borders to Morocco’s neighbor Algeria, which broke diplomatic ties with Rabat in 2021.

Algeria, which borders both Morocco and Western Sahara, has actively supported the Polisario and is home to more than 100,000 Sahrawis living in refugee camps, as well as the Polisario’s leadership.

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

Almost 50 years later, Morocco's de facto rule over Western Sahara has not yet been recognized under international law. ... Morocco has been tightening its border controls on the two enclaves.

Morocco and Western Sahara Events of 2023 People march in memory of the victims killed, injured, and missing in Melilla, on June, 24, 2023. in Melilla, Spain.

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria ...

The map of Morocco, including Western Sahara, is visible in red on pages 18, 26, and 92. ... which marked the border between «Spanish Sahara» and the rest of Morocco.

UNITED NATIONS — The pro-independence Polisario Front accused Morocco of obstructing a visit by the U.N. envoy for the disputed Western Sahara region and called on the United Nations to reveal ...

Since 1991, the United Nations has led a series of fruitless efforts to resolve the standoff over Western Sahara. A swath of desert about the size of the entire United Kingdom, Western Sahara is ...

An archway in the entrance of Dakhla carries an image of Morocco's King Mohammed VI, in Western Sahara, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Credit: AP/Mosa'ab Elshamy By The Associated Press June 1, 2025 3:25 pm ...

Western Sahara remained a taboo issue, ... at least 23 African men died at the Spain-Morocco border in Mellila. The incident occurred as around 2,000 people—migrants and asylum seekers, ...