The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria ...

However, they only control a fraction ... More Department-authorised map of Morocco recognising the internationally-disputed territory of the Western Sahara (bearing a signature by US Ambassador ...

Benjamin Netanyahu's office has said that the Israeli prime minister "mistakenly" displayed a map showing Western Sahara as separate ... he believed Israel must control the Philadelphi Corridor ...

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy called Morocco's proposal “credible, viable and pragmatic" during a visit to Rabat.

In recent years, various countries have backed Morocco's position, including the United States, Spain, France, Germany and ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 28 October 2024 Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former ...

In 1975, colonial power Spain abandoned Western Sahara, and Morocco swooped in to ... Meanwhile, Morocco has cemented its control over what it calls its “southern provinces,” developing ...

Morocco maintains control over most of Western Sahara and has been denounced by the UN Secretary General for allegations of human rights violations. Said said there is a “double standard” in ...

But the people did not want to be subjugated under Spanish rule, so it was 50 years before Spain, with the help of France, gained military control over the area. In the 1940s, it was discovered that ...