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 ...

A demonstration in Malaga, Spain, last month in support of Sahrawi rights in Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) On Dec. 10, President Trump upended 45 years ...

Amid today’s tangled geopolitical landscape, some alliances of convenience say more about a states true priorities than its ...

A recent visit by the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to refugee camps for people displaced by the Western Sahara conflict has stirred up tensions in the 40-year dispute.

The Western Sahara conflict has also driven up tensions within the African Union, whose decision to grant membership to the SADR in 1984 led Morocco to withdraw from the bloc.

The long-frozen Western Sahara conflict pitting Morocco against the Polisario Front independence movement has flared in recent months, worsening already tense relations between the kingdom and its ...

The Western Sahara conflict has eluded resolution for so long that the principles underlying United Nations-led efforts to seek an enduring outcome have become muddied almost to the point of ...

This was a good example of what not to do in trying to resolve the Western Sahara conflict, or any other conflict for that matter. In the past, whenever the Security Council and the Secretary-General ...

Some 1.93 million tonnes of phosphates were exported from the disputed territory of Western Sahara in 2018, with an estimated value of $164m, according to a new report from the pressure group ...

The long-frozen Western Sahara conflict pitting Morocco against the Polisario Front independence movement has flared in recent months, worsening already ...