Ghana turned a historic page on 5 June by withdrawing its recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and ...

Benjamin Netanyahu's office has said that the Israeli prime minister "mistakenly" displayed a map showing Western Sahara as separate to Morocco during a news conference earlier this week.

The map, which aimed to show Israel's isolation in a region of Arab states, was heavily criticised by Moroccans, who noted that Western Sahara - a contested region that Morocco has claimed since ...

A Spanish media outlet recently reported that FIFA altered Morocco's map to exclude Western Sahara. This claim was eagerly echoed by both Algerian public and private media. However, when examining ...

Kenya also backed a Moroccan initiative offering landlocked Sahel states access to global trade through its Atlantic ports.

The previous map (the one used by the UN) distinguished Western Sahara from Morocco with different colors, thus respecting international law. Now, this new map represents these two territories ...

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 ...