We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of ...

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

Rabat - Liberia and Ecuador have both reaffirmed their strong support for Morocco’s sovereignty over its southern provinces ...

His claims not only reduced a long-standing diplomatic position but also downplayed the institutional weight of his own ...

NEWS has obtained an open letter by the Syrian Liberal Party to Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, calling on the Syrian ...

Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975.

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 ...

Sultana Sidibrahim Khaya writes that she will not allow violence against her and her family to silence her campaign for self-determination in Western Sahara. “However, in order to secure justice ...

Western Sahara has the distinction of being the largest U.N.-recognized “non-self-governing territory.” When Spain agreed to cede control of its desert colony to Morocco and Mauritania in ...

In 1975, colonial power Spain abandoned Western Sahara, and Morocco swooped in to claim the territory as its own. Some of the indigenous Sahrawi population rebelled against their new rulers ...

James A. Baker III served as the 61st U.S. secretary of state from 1989 to 1992 and as the U.N. secretary-general’s personal envoy for Western Sahara from 1997 to 2004. President Trump’s ...

A recent visit by the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to refugee camps for people displaced by the Western Sahara conflict has stirred up tensions in the 40-year dispute.