Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975. Since then it has been the ...

Western Sahara has been on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories since 1963 following the transmission of information on Spanish Sahara by Spain under Article 73 e of the ...

In the stretch of Western Sahara under Polisario Front control, the constant buzz of drones is now a continuous and maddening fact of life.. Sidate Side Bahia and Naim Ahmed Salm Ibarki remember ...

The U.N. Security Council has voted to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the Western Sahara for another year Thursday with Algeria refusing to vote in protest at the resolution ...

As Israel joins America in recognizing Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, it is time for President Biden to cut the cord on what has been a decades-long study in failed diplomacy. Boldly ...

In the coming days, the UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, will visit the Tindouf camps, the Polisario’s permanent secretariat announced in a ...

Africanews. Ghana ends support to Western Sahara, backs Moroccan autonomy plan instead. Posted: June 7, 2025 | Last updated: June 13, 2025. An archway in the entrance of Dakhla carries an image of ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — King Mohammed VI on Friday reaffirmed that settling sovereignty disputes over the Western Sahara remains the driving force behind Morocco's foreign policy… ...

Western Sahara is a strip of coastal desert rich in phosphates and fish that the United Nations has considered a “non-self-governing territory” throughout almost 50 years of dispute.

Algeria pulls its ambassador to France after Paris throws is support behind Morocco's stalled plan to establish limited autonomy for Western Sahara. The move puts France at odds with Algiers ...

It concluded that Western Sahara was not a terra nullius (nobody’s land) at the time of Spain’s colonisation and that strong, historical ties connected Morocco to the tribes living there.

France has thrown its support behind Morocco's autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara, shifting a decades-old position and adding itself to a growing list of countries to align with Morocco ...