African Union (AU) member states are more divided than ever over the longstanding Western Sahara conflict. This was evident during the two coinciding conferences on the issue held by the Southern ...

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. Since then it has been the ...

Trump’s norm-breaking over Western Sahara was driven, ... a resolution over Western Sahara in 2004 as special envoy, resigned the same year due to intra-Security Council divisions.

Since 2007, Morocco has proposed an autonomy plan for the Western Sahara, which U.S. Ambassador Power still deems to be "serious, realistic, and credible," representing "a potential approach that ...

Former South African president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party has expressed support for Morocco’s claim over Western Sahara, sparking controversy within the African National Congress (ANC) — ...

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.

Most of Western Sahara has been under Moroccan control since Spain, the territory’s former colonial administrator, withdrew in 1975. In 1991, both Morocco and the Polisario, ...

The Polisario Front, the Western Sahara liberation movement, proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in 1976. The partially recognized SADR de facto governs the refugee camps on ...

A Western Sahara independence leader at the centre of a diplomatic dispute between Rabat and Madrid must answer legal charges in Spain before leaving the country, Spain said on Sunday.

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.