MINURSO (the U.N. mission for the Western Sahara) observers take note of a Moroccan drone strike on ... More a civilian vehicle on January 1st, 2024. The Moroccan army has come under attack in the ...

Western Sahara remained a Spanish colony until 1975 when the Moroccan government organized a so-called “Green March” with 350,000 protesters ... then to the Algerian capital Algiers, ...

Israel Formally Recognizes Western Sahara as Moroccan Territory. By. Hana Levi Julian - 29 Tammuz 5783 – July 17, 2023. 0. Share on Facebook. Tweet on Twitter ...

In Laayoune—considered the capital of the Western Sahara—the government is spending some $90 million on recreation and education centers, including public parks, libraries, ...

Moroccan protesters demonstrate against comments made by U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon in the capital Rabat on March 13. Ban referred to the disputed Western Sahara region, which is mostly administered ...

The visit was Staffan de Mistura’s first to the Western Sahara since he was appointed in 2021 to oversee U.N. efforts to guide negotiations that date back more than three decades.

Larbass Abid, a Sahrawi, was born in Laayoune — Western Sahara’s largest city and its capital. His people have been seeking independence from Morocco since 1976, when Spain abandoned its ...

ACCORDING to the map sold in the gift shop at the airport in Laayoune, the capital of Western Sahara, the territory belongs solely to Morocco. But the airport itself contains signs that this is ...

The State Department said Thursday the United States will open a consulate in Western Sahara following President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Morocco’s sovereignty over the disputed ...

Western Sahara is the native land of Sahrawis, or “People of the desert,” in northern Africa. The Moroccan government has moved some 300,000 settlers into these territories, and this triggered ...

The Trump administration, in its waning days, formally recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara and agreed to open a U.S. consulate there in late 2020 as an incentive for Morocco to ...

Western Sahara is a strip of coastal desert rich in phosphates and fish that the United Nations has considered a “non-self-governing territory” throughout almost 50 years of dispute.