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Western Sahara is a mineral-rich former Spanish colony that has been fought over for five decades in what is one of Africa's longest frozen conflicts.

Spain pulled out of Western Sahara in 1975, but after decades of neutrality, in 2022 it backed Morocco's proposal that the territory be granted autonomous status under Moroccan rule.

European airlines hit turbulence over Dakhla flights Low-cost airlines have opened routes linking Madrid and Paris to Dakhla in Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony largely controlled by ...

Direct flights from two European capitals to a city in a bitterly disputed north African territory have become the latest battleground in the conflict between a rebel group and Morocco. Low-cost ...

RABAT (Reuters) -Morocco and Spain said on Thursday they agreed to turn a new page in relations after Madrid supported Rabat’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara, ending a year-long diplomatic crisis.

The Politburo is subordinate to the Executive Committee, which is the highest body of POLISARIO. Under Spanish colonialism, very few were allowed to go to school and any teaching of the country's own ...

Western Sahara was an overseas Spanish colony from the 1880s until the mid-1970s. Mauritania and Morocco both laid claim to the territory after Spain withdrew, partitioning it between them.

The Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony in northwest Africa that is roughly the size of the United Kingdom and claimed by both Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front, which is ...

It was once a Spanish colony, and is now mostly controlled by Morocco and partly by the Algerian-backed Polisario Front - which says it represents the indigenous Sahrawi people and wants an ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron has told Morocco's parliament that he believes Western Sahara should be under Moroccan sovereignty, and has pledged to invest French money there. Western Sahara ...

Macron is just the latest Western leader to support Rabat’s position in the 50-year-old Western Sahara dispute, which has pitted indigenous aspirations for independence against Morocco’s ...