Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune wrapped up a two-day official visit to Italy on Thursday, July 24, aimed primarily at finalising major energy contracts and, crucially, at persuading Rome to ...

Portugal joined other Western countries in expressing a positive view of Morocco's autonomy proposal for the disputed Western ...

Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan's decision to shoot scenes for 'The Odyssey' in the disputed Western Sahara territory has sparked controversy with a local rebel group.

Campaigners and filmmakers are angry over the Oscar-winning director's new film using territory occupied by Morocco since ...

More and more countries — and former SA president Jacob Zuma — are backing Rabat’s plan for autonomy for Western Sahara.

The MK Party's contradictory stance on Western Sahara undermines the Sahrawi people's struggle for self-determination and ...

In Western Sahara, too, while traditional gender roles have freed women to push for independence, those norms also often mean that they do not pursue careers. Advertisement “It’s about the ...

World News Briefs;Western Sahara Vote Is Put in Doubt by U.N. The United Nations has begun closing voter registration offices in the disputed Western Sahara, officials said today, making it ...

Western Sahara is the last chapter of a story that began in the wake of World War II, when the world’s colonial empires started to break apart. In the decades after the war, France spun off ...

The Western Sahara is a “territory in the process of decolonization” according to the U.N. It was a Spanish colony until 1975, ...

Western Sahara remained a Spanish colony until 1975 when the Moroccan government organized a so-called “Green March” with 350,000 protesters marching into Western Sahara to claim the land.

Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony claimed by Morocco, and Morocco and the Polisario have been fighting for control of the area for two decades.