The blow to the leadership of the Polisario Front is a qualitative leap and a warning to all: the Moroccan identity of the ...

Sprawling along a windswept peninsula where the Sahara meets the Atlantic, the city of Dakhla certainly looked attractive. I ...

Morocco's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Omar Hilale, has called for a reassessment of whether the Western Sahara question should remain on the agenda of the UN Special ...

(Bloomberg) -- The group fighting for Western Sahara’s independence warned it may ramp up military attacks as Morocco looks to consolidate control of the disputed territory after securing US and ...

The five freshly elected non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council – Austria, Portugal, Kyrgyzstan, Trinidad and Tobago, and Zimbabwe – will assume their seats on January 1, 2027, ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday called on Moroccan officials to stop their efforts to suppress independent journalism in the disputed region of Western Sahara after the ...

One of Donald Trump’s last acts of foreign policy was a tweet. On December 10th, he announced that he had signed a proclamation recognizing the Moroccan government’s claim to the Western Sahara, a ...

For over 40 years, the people of Western Sahara have endured war and occupation—yet few outside of northern Africa have ever heard of them or their suffering. In 1975, their vast ­territory—some ...

This month, US Congress passed the 2015 Appropriations Bill. Among other provisions, the new law strengthens US mandate for assistance to Morocco to be used in Western Sahara. The law says, “Funds ...