A coalition of Sahrawi NGOs, including Africa Watch, Human Rights Defenders, and the International Network for Human Rights and Development (RIDHOD), has expressed deep concern over a projectile ...

Tensions in the Moroccan Sahara have taken a new turn following a missile attack by the Polisario on the town of Mahbes, ...

Rabat — On Saturday, Polisario launched a missile attack on the town of Mahbes in southern Morocco, disrupting a civilian ...

The U.N. is pushing for a plan to split Western Sahara as a possible solution to the long-standing conflict in the region.

The U.N. Security Council has voted to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the Western Sahara for another ...

The idea of partition isn't new. In a never-enacted agreement, Mauritania ceded the southern part of Western Sahara to Polisario when it withdrew in 1979. Former envoy James Baker floated ...

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A SCHEME by a United Nations envoy to divide Western Sahara is a “non-starter, the Polisario Front said on Thursday. The UN envoy to Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, put forward a proposal to ...

The U.N. envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, has floated the idea of dividing the territory between Morocco and the Polisario front as a solution to the near five-decades-old dispute, ...

The French president is in Rabat to discuss business ties and illegal immigration after saying he would support Moroccan ...

The UN Security Council on Thursday called for a "realistic" political solution in the contested territory of Western Sahara as it passed a resolution extending the UN mission there for another year.

The decision angered Algiers, which backs the Polisario Front that is seeking an independent state. "We have not been made aware of such measures, but we are closely watching the situation for our ...