UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has delivered a stark assessment of the Western Sahara situation in his latest annual ...

Since 2020, Morocco has reframed its case for control of Western Sahara as one based on economic development. Its shift is ...

Everyone is talking about Africa Intelligence’s report claiming that a new mission, MANSASO, will replace MINURSO and usher ...

Through its support for Western Sahara, Algeria exerts a form of pressure on Morocco and influences regional political ...

MINURSO (the U.N. mission for the Western Sahara) observers take note of a Moroccan drone strike on a civilian vehicle on January 1st, 2024. The Moroccan army has come under attack in the Western ...

Western Sahara, formerly a Spanish colony, has been under occupation by Moroccan and Mauritanian forces since 1975 following Spain’s withdrawal based on the Madrid Accords. The accords have not been ...

According to an Amnesty International report in 2024, Morocco and Western Sahara are marked by gender inequality, criminalization of same-sex relationships, inaccessibility of sexual and reproductive ...

A woman living in a refugee camp in the Sahara has described being able to build vegetable gardens in the desert thanks to a ...

Trump announced on December 10 that the U.S. would recognize Morocco's claim to Western Sahara as part of a deal for the North African country to normalize relations with Israel.

The phosphate trade from Western Sahara is concentrated among a small number of international buyers. According to WSRW, there were just six importers from four countries in 2018.

Western Sahara has several ports feeding into the Atlantic Ocean. It has fish-laden waters and a phosphate mine that hasn’t made a profit in years, but holds much potential as global demand ...

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.