AFP, Wednesday 14 Sep 2022. Kenya's new President William Ruto said on Wednesday the East African country was breaking diplomatic ties with the contested Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in ...

Also in Kigali, Deby received a motion signed by 28 AU members, welcoming Morocco’s decision to rejoin the AU but also declaring that these states would ‘act for the immediate suspension of the ...

The Western Sahara has been reduced to a political football in Africa in a grim game between Morocco and the Polisario. Morocco aggressively claims it as its southernmost province, while the latter ...

The countries which start with the letter ‘W’ are Wales, Western Sahara and Wallis and Futuna.

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria, and to the west of Mauritania – has become an "intricate" and ...

The government of the Saharawi Republic has called on the United Nations, the African Union and Nigeria to impress on Morocco to conduct a referendum to determine its status.Mohamed Yeslem Beisat, ...

On 1 June 2025, during a visit to Rabat, the United Kingdom’s foreign minister announced the UK’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy proposal for Western Sahara, describing it as “the most ...

Shortly Kenya expressed support for Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara, the Algerian ambassador to Nairobi, Mahi Boumediene, met with Moses Wetangula, Speaker of the Kenyan National ...

It rejoined the African Union in 2017 after having left the body in 1984 over the admission of Polisario’s Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic – which till date is not recognised by the UN or the ...

In 1976, it proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in the interior of the territory, which is recognized by 44 countries. Shortly afterwards, armed clashes with Morocco's army began.