MINURSO (the U.N. mission for the Western Sahara) observers take note of a Moroccan drone strike on ... More a civilian vehicle on January 1st, 2024. The Moroccan army has come under attack in the ...

WHILE the eyes of the world are fixed upon the genocide in Gaza, the 50th anniversary of another neocolonial conflict has gone relatively unnoticed. In 1975, Morocco annexed the adjacent territory of ...

The only realistic hope to end the occupation of Western Sahara, resolve the conflict, and save the vitally important post-World War II principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter which ...

The forgotten occupation. Morocco promised Western Sahara a vote on independence 41 years ago. It still hasn't happened.

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 and its Indigenous people, the Sahrawi. The Sahrawi ...

For those of us who have actually been to Western Sahara, there is no question that it is an occupation. Any verbal or visual expression of support for self-determination is savagely suppressed.

And Western Sahara — its formal name is the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic — has been recognized by well over 80 countries. It’s a full member state of the African Union.

Some 90,000 people are living in refugee camps in west Algeria, near to the border with Western Sahara, according to the U.N. Refugee Agency, although the Algerian government puts the figure at ...

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon regrets his use of the word "occupation" to describe Moroccan rule in the disputed Western Sahara territory, according to his spokesman.

It betrayed Western Sahara by standing idly by while its people were invaded, bombed, forced into exile, divided by a wall, and persecuted by a brutal Moroccan occupation. These are crimes for ...

Western Sahara remained a Spanish colony until 1975 when the Moroccan government organized a so-called “Green March” with 350,000 protesters ... As a result of the Moroccan occupation, ...