So why does Western Sahara matter? When the European powers divided up Africa ... Mauritania soon withdrew but Morocco did not and has occupied the country since. It built a sand wall around most of ...

A high-level French diplomatic delegation, including political and military officials from the French Embassy in Rabat, held ...

The Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony in northwest ... governs a sliver of land that lies beyond a Moroccan-built sand wall. The United Nations considers the territory “non-self ...

Since 1991, the United Nations has led a series of fruitless efforts to resolve the standoff over Western Sahara. A swath of desert about the size of the entire United Kingdom, Western Sahara is ...

This year marks 50 years since Morocco invaded Western Sahara, forcibly displacing the Sahrawi people into Algeria. Women's rights and climate activist Najla Mohamed-Lamin joins us from the refugee ...

Sahrawi men and women at a meeting of party leaders in Laayoune, a city in the territory of Western Sahara. Youssef Boudlal/Reuters The following interview is with Fatma El Mehdi, one of eight ...

The Saharawi Youth Union, advocating for the independence of Western Sahara, together with the International Service for Human Rights, urged the UN Human Rights Council on Monday to “take action” and ...

Polisario Front’s Australian representative Kamal Fadel has urged Fortescue not to undermine United Nations decolonisation efforts by making a deal with the occupation government in Western Sahara.

In North Africa, the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara have long been denied self-determination, first under Spanish colonialism and then under Morocco’s occupation since 1975. Decades after the ...