At the Berlin Conference in 1884, when the European colonial powers divided Africa between them, Spain was awarded Western Sahara, which was then named 'Spanish Sahara'. But the people did not want to ...

Spanish lawmaker Isabel Serra, Portuguese Catarina Martins and Jussi Saramo from Finland were detained and subsequently ...

French Culture Minister Rachida Dati began a visit on Monday to disputed Western Sahara where she will meet officials and ...

Western Sahara is a highly contested territory and some people mistakenly think it's a country, which is incorrect. Morocco claims authority over Western Sahara, but the United Nations does not ...

Perhaps these people could be resettled in the Spanish ... The population of the Spanish Sahara, now called the Western Sahara, is estimated to be around 632,200 in an area the size of Colorado ...

France's support of Morocco's so-called "autonomy plan" for Western Sahara is a "grave mistake," the president of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, reminding French President Emmanuel Macron of the ...

When we met representatives of the Collective of Human Rights Defenders of Western Sahara (Codesa) we heard of arbitrary arrests, the detention of young people and discrimination against those who ...

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has recently updated its official website with a new map and information about ...

Morocco has also won backing from Western Sahara's former colonial power Spain, as well as Israel and more than two dozen African and Arab nations. MOROCCAN SOLDIERS are seen on an earth wall that ...