The European Union's legal ambiguity on the Western Sahara frozen conflict is an increasingly glaring source of vulnerability for Sahrawis, a new study shows. The lack of a firm EU position on the non ...

Donald Trump’s boasts of being the “Peace President” have been blown apart by some of the very people he pledged to save from war. Trump’s much-derided memorandum of understanding with Iran makes for ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday called on Moroccan officials to stop their efforts to suppress independent journalism in the disputed region of Western Sahara after the ...

For over 40 years, the people of Western Sahara have endured war and occupation—yet few outside of northern Africa have ever heard of them or their suffering. In 1975, their vast ­territory—some ...

One of Donald Trump’s last acts of foreign policy was a tweet. On December 10th, he announced that he had signed a proclamation recognizing the Moroccan government’s claim to the Western Sahara, a ...

This month, US Congress passed the 2015 Appropriations Bill. Among other provisions, the new law strengthens US mandate for assistance to Morocco to be used in Western Sahara. The law says, “Funds ...

Moroccan exports of phosphates from the disputed territory of Western Sahara have fallen to their lowest level since at least 2012, with volumes almost halving in 2019 to 1.03 million tonnes, worth an ...