WHILE the eyes of the world are fixed upon the genocide in Gaza, the 50th anniversary of another neocolonial conflict has gone relatively unnoticed. In 1975, Morocco annexed the adjacent territory of ...

The Spanish government has reportedly excluded Western Sahara from its «Spain-Africa Strategy 2025-2028», according to several Iberian media outlets on Wednesday, March 12. Diplomats at the ...

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

After a decades-long cease-fire crumbled in 2020, Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front have resumed fighting over the disputed Western Sahara.

We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of Western Sahara and its Indigenous people, the Sahrawi. The Sahrawi ...

The U.N. envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, has floated the idea of dividing the territory between Morocco and the Polisario front as a solution to the near five-decades-old dispute ...

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.

France and Morocco have historically partnered on issues ranging from counterterrorism to Western Sahara. Morocco is the top destination for French investment in Africa and France is Morocco’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The population of the Spanish Sahara, now called the Western Sahara, is estimated to be around 632,200 in an area the size of Colorado, about 97,344 square miles.

Both Morocco and the Polisario Front have dismissed Staffan de Mistura’s proposal of carving Western Sahara into two territories – one belonging to Morocco, the other independent – with Rabat furious ...