A valuable historical testimony from a senior Spanish official revealed how France conspired with the Moroccan regime to harm ...

I have just completed reading the 2025 Saharawi Observatory for Natural Resources and Environmental (SONREP) Report, titled ...

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Morocco plans to build a 500 megawatt state-owned data center powered by renewable energy in Dakhla, Western Sahara, as part of its strategy to strengthen data st ...

Western Sahara is a sparsely-populated area of mostly desert situated on the northwest coast of Africa. A former Spanish colony, it was annexed by Morocco in 1975.

The international legal record on Western Sahara has been clear and consistent. In 1975, the International Court of Justice issued an opinion on the matter at Morocco’s own request. It stated ...

We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of ...

World News Briefs;Western Sahara Vote Is Put in Doubt by U.N. The United Nations has begun closing voter registration offices in the disputed Western Sahara, officials said today, making it ...

Sultana Sidibrahim Khaya writes that she will not allow violence against her and her family to silence her campaign for self-determination in Western Sahara. “However, in order to secure justice ...

A recent visit by the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to refugee camps for people displaced by the Western Sahara conflict has stirred up tensions in the 40-year dispute.

The Western Sahara was a colony of Spain until dictator General Franco died in 1975. Following that, we, a weak and unstable Spain, left the land to Morocco, who invaded it militarily.

The Western Sahara is a “territory in the process of decolonization” according to the U.N. It was a Spanish colony until 1975, ...