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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Morocco plans to build a 500 megawatt state-owned data center powered by renewable energy in Dakhla, Western Sahara, as part of its strategy to strengthen data st ...

Morocco has occupied Western Sahara since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community.

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