For more than six decades, the people of Western Sahara have been denied their inalienable right to self-determination. The Moroccan “autonomy plan” is not a path to peace — it is a ...

The Western Sahara conflict has also driven up tensions within the African Union, whose decision to grant membership to the SADR in 1984 led Morocco to withdraw from the bloc.

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria, and to the west of Mauritania – has become an "intricate" and ...

Located in north-west Africa, just 140 kilometers from the Canary Islands, Western Sahara is a desert landscape with an arid climate. Since 1973, the POLISARIO liberation front has been fighting ...

The Trump administration faces a historic opportunity to resolve the Western Sahara conflict. Centered on a disputed territory along North Africa’s Atlantic seaboard, where Morocco and the ...

Western Sahara, located in northwest Africa, has been classified by the U.N. as a "non-self-governing" territory since 1963. Following Spain's withdrawal, ...

Western Sahara has been disputed by Morocco and the national liberation movement since the 1970s. After an unsuccessful referendum in 1991, the territory’s legal status remains contentious.

The UN’s special envoy to the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, is in a fix. His proposal to the Western Sahara impasse – creating a Sahrawi state in place of the Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab region – has been ...

Western Sahara. In July, France recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, a break with past policies and a shift in international acceptance of the 2007 Moroccan autonomy proposal, ...

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria, and to the west of Mauritania – has become an "intricate" and ...