The pro-independence Polisario Front declared a three-decade-old ceasefire in disputed Western Sahara was over after Morocco launched an operation to reopen the road to neighbouring Mauritania.

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

The Polisario Front launched an attack on the border between Morocco and Mauritania. The group is fighting for the independence of Western Sahara. A Moroccan official said the attack did not disrupt ...

“In this part of the Sahara Desert, there aren’t really borders, it’s open land,” says Gaici Nah, from the Sahrawi Mine Action Coordination Office, of the area between the 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 remained a Spanish colony until 1975 when the Moroccan government organized a so-called “Green March” with 350,000 protesters marching into Western Sahara to claim the land.

1979 - Mauritania gives up its claims to Western Sahara. 1981 - Mauritania becomes the last country in the world to outlaw slavery. 1989-91 - Mauritania-Senegal Border War.

Authorities in Mauritania have renewed calls for artisanal gold miners to respect national borders, ... some miners continue to cross into Moroccan-controlled buffer zones in Western Sahara in ...

By the time the two sides agreed a ceasefire, in 1991, Morocco controlled about two-thirds of Western Sahara and all its coastline; ... along the border with Mauritania.

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria, and to the west of Mauritania – has become an "intricate" and ...

It is around 35 to 40 degrees Celsius in Wilayah of Bojador, the smallest of the five refugee camps on the border with Western Sahara. My feet are boiling in my shoes, but walking in bare feet is ...