It was last updated on 28 October 2024 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 ...

The Portuguese were well aware of Western Sahara’s bounties, but their early efforts to colonise the territory were stymied by the resistance of the Sahrawi people. The Spanish came next and ...

He follows then-U.S. President Donald Trump in 2020 and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro ... which recognized Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara in exchange for Rabat's normalization of ties ...

By Raphael Minder MADRID — In a bid to ease tensions with Morocco, Spain has recognized for the first time a plan drawn up by the African country for governing Western Sahara, a former Spanish ...

Thousands of people demonstrated in Madrid on Saturday against Morocco's recent crackdown that has left at least 10 people dead in the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara in northwestern Africa.

Algiers steps up its retaliation against Madrid with threats and sanctions as the latter takes the side of Morocco on disputed territory A demonstrator holds a placard reading "RIP the freedom of ...

Morocco annexed Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony believed to have considerable offshore oil deposits and mineral resources, in 1975, sparking a conflict with the pro-independence Polisario ...

Algerian sanctions imposed in the wake of Spain's change of position on Western Sahara have cost Madrid more than $258m in export revenue, according to the latest Spanish government data.

On March 14, 2022, in a letter addressed to King Mohammed VI, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced his support for Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara.

Explosions struck a city in a Moroccan-controlled part of the Western Sahara, killing at least one ... that’s sought independence for the former Spanish colony for almost half a century.

President Trump’s idea of relocating Palestinians from Gaza to Jordan and Egypt is a bad idea (“Trump says Egypt, Jordan should take more Palestinian refugees,” Web, Jan. 26). Jordan has ...

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 ...