In an October 2024 briefing to the UN Security Council, Staffan de Mistura, the secretary-general’s Western Sahara envoy, issued an unexpected recommendation to resolve the 50-year conflict: partition ...

The long-standing conflict over Western Sahara—a resource-rich but sparsely populated desert region—traces its origins to the colonial era, much like ...

General Leopoldo O’Donnell, the descendant of the O’Donnell clan from Co Donegal who fled Ireland in the 17th century, won a ...

So why does Western Sahara matter? When the European powers divided up Africa in the late 19th century Spain became master of this vast area of mainly desert land, stretching from Algeria to the ...

The Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said that his country and Morocco are experiencing the most robust ...

Three MEPs belonging to The Left group were forced back to Spain Thursday evening after landing in Laayoune, the capital of the disputed territory of the Western Sahara, which is partly controlled by ...

The UN does not recognize the sovereignty claims of either the Polisario Front or Morocco, which took control of most of Western Sahara in a 1975 agreement with Spain and Mauritania. Morocco ...

In the long run, he added, this would mean recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara. Spain, for example, has already accepted Morocco's claim to the region, he said. Among all EU ...

Polisario Front’s Australian representative Kamal Fadel has urged Fortescue not to undermine United Nations decolonisation efforts by making a deal with the occupation government in Western Sahara.

Rabat - Peru’s Congress has urged the country’s Foreign Ministry to express clear support for Morocco’s Autonomy Plan for the Western Sahara, describing Peru’s Congress has urged the country’s Foreign ...