RABAT (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has reaffirmed support for Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara, saying a ...

Washington is preparing to authorize major investments by its companies in the former Spanish colony, where Morocco claims ...

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

Algeria’s regime continue to push for a reversal of the US position on Western Sahara. The US continues to send a clear ...

The South African government’s long-standing foreign policy position is for the self-determination of the people of Western ...

For Morocco's King Mohammed VI, this summer could go down in history. For five decades, the Western Sahara, a territory to the south of the country, has been at the center of a conflict which ...

AMY GOODMAN: Speaking of 1975 and Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara, Ana Gomes, that was the same year that Indonesia invaded East Timor, killing a third of the population, one of ...

Up until 1976, Western Sahara was a Spanish colony. However, when Spain began to vacate its positions, Morocco had already occupied first the northern, then the southern part of Western Sahara.

Morocco expelled several foreign visitors who arrived on fact-finding missions to Western Sahara, most of them European citizens who openly supported Sahrawi self-determination.

In mid-January 2022, the United Nations sent its Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Staffan de Mistura to Morocco, Algeria, and Mauritania to begin a new dialogue “toward a constructive ...

But Morocco’s claim on Western Sahara is rejected by the United Nations, the World Court, the African Union and a broad consensus of international legal scholars that consider the region a non ...

While a draft of Morocco’s first law on the right to asylum had yet to be adopted, Morocco’s refugee agency granted one-year renewable residency permits to more than 500 UNHCR-recognized refugees.