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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) - Talks to resolve the conflict over Western Sahara should take place on the sole basis of a Moroccan plan that would give the region some autonomy under the North ...

Madrid (AFP) – 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 ...

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.

Low-cost airlines have opened routes linking Madrid and Paris to Dakhla in Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony largely controlled by Morocco but claimed for decades by the Algeria-backed ...

Paris's change of heart on the question of sovereignty over Western Sahara has angered Algeria. An overview of this territory, which is in dispute between the Sahrawi people and Morocco.