More and more countries — and former SA president Jacob Zuma — are backing Rabat’s plan for autonomy for Western Sahara.

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 ...

With its leader under fire after a visit to Morocco and flying the South African flag, the MK party argues that Western ...

The Western Sahara is a long-disputed territory to the southwest of Morocco controlled mostly by the Moroccan state, which occupies about 75% of the territory, according to the CIA World Factbook.

U.S. and Moroccan flags next to a map of Morocco recognizing the territory of Western Sahara. (Str/AFP/Getty Images) Stephen Zunes is a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco and ...

World News Briefs;Western Sahara Vote Is Put in Doubt by U.N. The United Nations has begun closing voter registration offices in the disputed Western Sahara, officials said today, making it ...

Protestors hold Western Sahara flags in Bordeaux, France, on Dec. 12. (Thibaud Moritz/AFP/Getty Images) The Dec. 11 news article “In U.S.-backed deal, Morocco to normalize ties with Israel ...

The Western Sahara was a colony of Spain until dictator General Franco died in 1975. Following that, we, a weak and unstable Spain, left the land to Morocco, who invaded it militarily.

Now it is time to return to war and we women of Western Sahara will sacrifice our children for the cause," said Mbaraka, 65, in the Awserd camp in Tindouf.

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

World News Briefs;Western Sahara Vote Is Put in Doubt by U.N. The United Nations has begun closing voter registration offices in the disputed Western Sahara, officials said today, making it ...