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 ...

The Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, led by former President Jacob Zuma and now South Africa’s third-largest political force, has ...

Britain, struggling to find sources of economic growth, now looks to the African continent as growth’s “engine room”. The ...

Jenn Abelson is an investigative reporter with the Globe’s Spotlight team. She traveled to Western Sahara and Morocco with the support of the International Women’s Media Foundation.

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than ...

Registrations opened on June 11 for what has been dubbed “the hardest foot race on earth,” a grueling 250km ultra-marathon through Morocco’s Sahara desert.

Morocco's neighbor, Algeria, which also shares a border with Western Sahara, went the opposite way and sought to tighten its military ties with Russia. Algeria severed diplomatic relations with ...

The trip comes months after Macron changed France’s longstanding public position and backed Morocco’s autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara. The move endeared the country to Morocco ...

By Aida Alami and Aurelien Breeden Aida Alami reported from Rabat, Morocco, and Aurelien Breeden from Paris. For nearly 50 years, the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara has been disputed ...

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert ... Southeastern Morocco's desert is among the most arid places in the world and ...

In exchange for Morocco normalizing relations with Israel, the Trump administration promised in December 2020 to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara. The announcement upset decades ...