In May, during one such raid, Moroccan agents raped my sister and I – in a barbaric message, they penetrated my sister using the broomstick that we use to wave the Western Sahara flag.

Talks organised by the United Nations to try to break the deadlock over a referendum on the disputed territory of Western Sahara have started in London ... but international pressure is growing for an ...

In 2025, we mark 50 years since Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara — a colonial occupation ... of the same yoke under a different flag. The Atlantic access project supposedly ...

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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 ...

France has acknowledged Morocco's sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara, marking a significant shift in its long-standing position. Meanwhile, the United Nations-mediated peace process ...

French Culture Minister Rachida Dati began a visit on Monday to the disputed Western Sahara, a sign of French support for Moroccan sovereignty over the desert territory. The long-frozen conflict ...

France has backed Morocco’s autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara, shifting a decades-old position and adding itself to a growing list of countries to align with Morocco as a UN-mediated ...