In an October 2024 briefing to the UN Security Council, Staffan de Mistura, the secretary-general’s Western Sahara envoy, ...

The long-standing conflict over Western Sahara—a resource-rich but sparsely populated desert region—traces its origins to the ...

Morocco has also won backing from Western Sahara's former colonial power Spain, as well as Israel and more than two dozen African and Arab nations.

declaring that Western Sahara was not “land belonging to no-one” (terra nullius) at the time of its colonization by Spain. The ICJ judgment, therefore, declared that Morocco had no valid claim ...

Green colonialism is the “continuation of colonial relations of plunder and dispossession in the era of renewable energies.” In Morocco, for example, it said that European investments in its ...

Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles has ordered the cancellation of military ceremonies planned to commemorate the ...

Move follows visit by French Senate speaker to Laayoune, the main city in Western Sahara region - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Algiers also slammed the "detestable image of a former colonial power in solidarity ... instead proposing autonomy under Morocco. France's stance on Western Sahara has been ambiguous in recent ...

French support for Rabat over Western Sahara irks Algiers. Morocco has also won backing from Western Sahara's former colonial power Spain, as well as Israel and more than two dozen African and ...

Algiers also slammed the "detestable image of a former colonial power in solidarity ... instead proposing autonomy under Morocco. France's stance on Western Sahara has been ambiguous in recent ...

France's stance on Western Sahara has been ambiguous in recent years, often straining ties between Rabat and Paris. But in July, French President Emmanuel Macron said that Morocco's autonomy plan ...