"One of the more difficult places to visit is the sparsely populated territory known as Western Sahara," writes John P. Smith ...

Europe's best beach, boasting stunning white sand and crystal clear waters, is actually man-made. Travel firm Omio has ranked ...

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.

Who controls Western Sahara? 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 ...

In 1975, colonial power Spain abandoned Western Sahara, and Morocco swooped in to claim the territory as its own. Some of the indigenous Sahrawi population rebelled against their new rulers ...

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 ...

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.

The ownership of Western Sahara has been contested since 1975. The indigenous Sahrawi people have lived in camps ever since. Show more The dispute over Western Sahara is one of Africa’s longest ...

Algeria, which borders both Morocco and Western Sahara, has actively supported the Polisario and is home to more than 100,000 Sahrawis living in refugee camps, as well as the Polisario’s leadership.

ALMOST 50 YEARS have passed since Morocco claimed sovereignty over Western Sahara, a slice of land that stretches for 900km along the Atlantic coast to the country’s south. The Polisario Front ...

The United Kingdom on Sunday became the latest country to back Morocco’s position on the disputed Western Sahara, calling its plan to keep the territory under Moroccan control “the most ...

Britain has become the latest country to back a plan to give limited autonomy to the disputed territory of Western Sahara, while keeping it under Moroccan control. Foreign Secretary David Lammy ...