For more than six decades, the people of Western Sahara have been denied their inalienable right to self-determination. The Moroccan “autonomy plan” is not a path to peace — it is a repackaging of ...

With close to 200 countries between them, all seven continents are home to territorial disputes. But in Africa, a territory the size of Colorado is designated by the United Nations as a ...

Mali has backed Morocco’s plan to offer autonomy to Western Sahara while maintaining sovereignty over the region.

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 ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the Western Sahara for another year Thursday with Algeria refusing to vote in protest at ...

France recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over the Western Sahara, a historic shift that may spur more investment in the disputed mineral-rich territory but inflamed tensions with neighboring Algeria.

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Mali has officially backed Morocco’s plan to grant autonomy to Western Sahara while asserting sovereignty over the disputed ...

Amine Ghoulidi is a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in geopolitics and security at ...

Almost invisibly to most Americans, Morocco has won an important victory in its long struggle to maintain and legitimize its sovereignty in the Western Sahara. For most Americans, and even most ...

In West Africa, there's a territory the size of Colorado that doesn't officially belong to any nation. Photos show life in Western Sahara.