Western Sahara, a vast territory largely barren but rich in phosphates and facing fertile fishing grounds in the Atlantic Ocean, is disputed between Morocco, which annexed it in 1976, and the ...

A Spanish political stance critical of Madrid’s involvement in the crisis that erupted with Algeria nearly three years ago ...

WHILE the eyes of the world are fixed upon the genocide in Gaza, the 50th anniversary of another neocolonial conflict has gone relatively unnoticed. In 1975, Morocco annexed the adjacent territory of ...

Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Western Sahara independence movement at the heart of a diplomatic spat between Spain and Morocco, will appear before an investigating judge in Spain on June 1, 2021.

MADRID — Spanish animated feature “The Living Forest” won the top Desert Rose prize at the first Sahara Intl. Film Festival. Jury was made up of representatives of Saharan refugee camps.

Reason: prospectors have found indications that the sandy wastes of Spanish Sahara, like the French Sahara farther east, may hold oil, a resource to be found nowhere else in Spanish territory.

The palace says Friday, March 18, 2021 that, in a letter to King Mohammed VI, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez recognized “the importance of the Sahara issue for Morocco” and that “Spain ...