On March 14, 2022, in a letter addressed to King Mohammed VI, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced his support for Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara.

Since the beginning of the year, Morocco has expelled several Spanish citizens from the cities of Laayoune and Dakhla, who came to «learn about the human rights situation in Western Sahara».

The state-run French Development Agency (AFD) will invest $168-million in the largely Moroccan-controlled but disputed ...

Decolonisation in Africa is one of the most pivotal global milestones of the 20th century, representing a determined and, in many cases, successful departure from centuries of Eurocentric colonial ...

France announces €150m investment in Western Sahara, backing Morocco’s development plans and raising tensions with Algeria ...

Low-cost airlines have opened routes linking Madrid and Paris to Dakhla in Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony largely controlled by Morocco but claimed for decades by the Algeria-backed Polisario ...

A Spanish delegation from the municipality of La Oliva in the Canary Islands visited the southern Moroccan city of Dakhla on ...

Western Sahara is a lightly inhabited, resource-rich territory on the northwest coast of Africa. The area is a former Spanish colony that was annexed by Morocco in 1975, sparking a territorial dispute ...

The latest sign of the kingdom's assertive approach to the former Spanish colony was on show ... Front fought for decades over control of Western Sahara, until a 1991 UN-brokered ceasefire froze ...

Thanks to manoeuvring by the United States, the prospects for peace and self determination for Western Sahara have suffered a serious setback, writes Vijay Prashad. Moroccan authorities have set in ...