The Western Sahara is the most sparsely populated territory in Africa, much of it desert. On the surface, it appears to have ...

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 ...

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

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. Since then it has been the ...

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

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

NEWS has obtained an open letter by the Syrian Liberal Party to Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, calling on the Syrian leader to recognize Rabat's sovereignty over its Sahara ...

News about Western Sahara, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Since 1991, the United Nations has led a series of fruitless efforts to resolve the standoff over Western Sahara. A swath of desert about the size of the entire United Kingdom, Western Sahara is ...

A recent report by the Migration Research Institute identifies Morocco as “the most stable country in the entire Maghreb” and ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.N. envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, has floated the idea of dividing the territory between Morocco and the Polisario front as a solution to the near five ...