Paris's change of heart on the question of sovereignty over Western Sahara has angered Algeria. An overview of this territory, which is in dispute between the Sahrawi people and Morocco.

About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an enigmatic people lived here.

When the European powers divided up Africa in the late 19th century Spain ... The lack of a clear choice over Western Sahara's future has set settlers against local people in some - not all - cases ...

Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara not only violates international law but also undermines the credibility and integrity ...

Since then, animosity from both Moroccan authorities and the Moroccan people towards ... s illegal occupation of Western Sahara—the last colonized territory in Africa—is in direct violation ...

US Senior Advisor for Africa, Massad Boulos, reaffirmed his country’s support for Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara ...

South Africa’s banking system could come under scrutiny and the country may attract targeted sanctions if it does not follow ...

Designating the Polisario Front as a foreign terrorist organization would solidify the US-Morocco alliance, degrade a key ...

Morocco doesnt want you to know whats happening in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara The Saharawi people live under ... to the last colony in Africa We visited this place We spent ...

Today, the Sahara Desert is a hot and dry belt of sand stretching across much of northern Africa. But between 15,000 and 5,000 years ago it would have been full of rivers, plants and people. New ...

As Morocco cosies up to the Trump Administration, the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) seeks to redefine its role amid financial insecurity. Thirty-four years ...

Talks to resolve the conflict over Western Sahara should take place on the sole basis of a Moroccan plan that would give the region some autonomy under the North African kingdom's sovereignty, the ...