Western Sahara independence faces pushback as Morocco’s autonomy plan gains global support despite legal and environmental ...

FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates — The humble road rumble strip, used around the world to alert drifting drivers to potential ...

Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin is a dangerous group. It is causing instability in West Africa. The group formed in 2017 ...

As the growing tide of travelers strains housing, water and hot spots, protests and measures to lessen the effects of ...

The UK has joined other European countries in endorsing Morocco's position in the Western Sahara conflict. Algeria and the independence-seeking Polisario are losing out.

For the past 30 years, the UN has been maintaining a peacekeeping mission in the Western Sahara to "monitor the humanitarian and security situation" and ensure compliance with the ceasefire agreement.

The UN has sought since the early 1990s to arrange a referendum for Sahrawis on whether Western Sahara should become fully independent or part of Morocco.

A referendum must take place allowing the people of Western Sahara to decide their future freely, to uphold African solidarity, justice, self-determination and dignity ...

Expressing deep regret at the US administration’s clear pro-Morocco bias, which only feeds the Moroccan expansionist war against the Sahrawi Republic in flagrant contravention of international ...

In their statement, the union called upon the council to: take decisive measures to reinforce the authority of UN human rights mechanisms and ensure that Morocco complies with its obligations, ...

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 ...

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.