Western Sahara remained a Spanish colony until 1975 when the Moroccan government organized a so-called “Green March” with 350,000 protesters marching into Western Sahara to claim the land.

The people of Western Sahara, like all the peoples of Africa, rose up to demand an end to colonisation. With the aim of achieving self-governance of their territory, ...

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

The people of Western Sahara must be allowed to decide their future freely. Anything less is a betrayal — not only of them, but of the African continent’s enduring promise of liberation.

The Western Sahara was a colony of Spain until dictator General Franco died in 1975. Following that, we, a weak and unstable Spain, left the land to Morocco, who invaded it militarily.

Dion Nissenbaum’s article and video package on Western Sahara (“Dormant War Draws U.S. Spotlight,” World News, Aug. 12) is thorough and evenhanded overall, bringing attention to the oft ...

LAAYOUNE, Western Sahara — Keltoum Khayat left home barefoot at age 15, ... An estimated 160,000 people, almost entirely dependent on international aid, ...

For 45 years, the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara have lived in a sprawling settlement in the Algerian desert. In 1975, they fled Morocco during the Western Sahara War, in which the Polisario ...

James A. Baker III served as the 61st U.S. secretary of state from 1989 to 1992 and as the U.N. secretary-general’s personal envoy for Western Sahara from 1997 to 2004. President Trump’s ...

I first went to the Western Sahara in 2008 for the Sahara International Film Festival, the only one of its kind to take place in a refugee camp. I went there knowing only a little about the ...