An overview of this territory, which is in dispute between the Sahrawi people and Morocco. ... Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa.

Africanews English. French officials visit disputed Western Sahara territory. Posted: February 18, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025. A Sahrawi man walks on the patio of a closed school in Bir ...

Tensions are again rising over Western Sahara, a long-disputed territory on the northwest coast of Africa that has seen decades of conflict launched by local pro-independence forces against the ...

That year, Morocco presented the UN Security Council with a vague three-page “autonomy plan” for Western Sahara that, in fact, simply asserted Rabat’s sovereignty over the disputed territory. In ...

Morocco's King Mohammed VI, 2nd right, flanked by his brother prince Moulay Rachid, inspects the royal guard in Laayoune, the capital of disputed territories of the Western Sahara, Nov. 7, 2015.

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For nearly 50 years, the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara has been disputed territory in northern Africa, claimed by Morocco but fought over by an Indigenous independence movement supported ...

UK backs Morocco's plan for disputed Western Sahara. 2 June 2025. Share Save. James Landale. ... (260,000 sq km) of territory but part is controlled by the Polisario Front, ...

"The Western Sahara has gone from a disputed territory that was radioactive to foreign investors to an increasingly normal region that's receiving a growing flow of capital," Riccardo Fabiani ...

The disputed Western Sahara remains the driving force behind Morocco's foreign policy, King Mohammed VI said in a rare speech on Friday. ... The disputed territory, ...

An overview of this territory, which is in dispute between the Sahrawi people and Morocco. ... Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa.