UNITED NATIONS – A proposed U.N. resolution calls for the urgent return of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the disputed Western Sahara to its full operation, in a strong rebuke to Morocco's ...

By Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - In a divisive vote, the U.N. Security Council on Friday extended for a year a peacekeeping mission in disputed Western Sahara ...

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has warned of the risk of "full-scale war" in the disputed Western Sahara region if the peacekeeping mission there is not extended. Ban has been at the center of a ...

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

WASHINGTON – The United States is declaring its support for the threatened U.N. peacekeeping mission in the disputed territory of Western Sahara after Morocco took steps to reduce its size and ...

The UN in 1991 brokered a ceasefire between Morocco and the Polisario Front, premised on a referendum on self-determination that the UN mission was to organize.

Dozens of United Nations international staffers pulled out of their Western Sahara mission on Sunday after Morocco demanded they leave because of remarks by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ...

New York - The United Nations Security Council renewed on Tuesday the mandate of a peacekeeping force in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, but South Africa expressed disappointment that ...

The African Union, as the successor to the OAU, has maintained its commitment to the Saharawi question. On the ground, the AU office in Western Sahara, established under UN Security Council ...

A United Nations peacekeeping mission in disputed Western Sahara is still not fully functional, the U.N. Security Council president said on Tuesday, months after Morocco expelled dozens of ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council renewed a U.N. peacekeeping mission in the disputed North African territory of Western Sahara for another year on Tuesday, and urged all sides ...