Portugal joined other Western countries in expressing a positive view of Morocco's autonomy proposal for the disputed Western ...

Portugal’s decision to support Morocco’s autonomy plan for the disputed territory of Western Sahara sees Lisbon joins a ...

The Polisario Front has responded to Portugal’s recent endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara by urging ...

Portugal joined other Western countries in expressing a positive view of Morocco’s autonomy proposal for the disputed Western ...

Portugal renewed its support for Morocco’s territorial integrity, describing the Autonomy Plan as most serious basis for the ...

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 Boucraa mine in Western Sahara has an estimated output of 2.5 million tons per year—a fraction of what Morocco, the world’s largest phosphate exporter, produces annually.

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

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.

Western Sahara has been on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories since 1963 following the transmission of information on Spanish Sahara by Spain under Article 73 e of the ...

UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, welcomes the successful conclusion on Saturday February 8 of a seminar involving 33 participants from the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria and Western Sahara ...

Morocco moved in to control most of the sparsely populated territory after former colonial ruler Spain withdrew in 1975.