DAKHLA, Western Sahara (AP) — Beneath a star-packed sky in the Sahara, smugglers and handymen unearth a boat buried in the sand, a made-to-order vessel for carrying migrants from the North African ...

Talks aimed at resolving the five-decade long Sahara conflict were quietly held under U.S. mediation in both Washington, DC and Madrid over the past three weeks. Progress this year on the Sahara ...

The 50-year dispute over Western Sahara has seen a significant diplomatic shift since 2020, when U.S. President Donald Trump announced his support for Morocco’s autonomy plan for the territory at the ...

The group fighting for Western Sahara’s independence warned it may ramp up military attacks as Morocco looks to consolidate control of the disputed territory after securing US and French backing.

Christopher Nolan won the best director Oscar for Oppenheimer at last year’s Academy Awards - Phillip Faraone/VF24/Getty Images for Vanity Fair Christopher Nolan has been accused of enabling ...

In 2025, we mark 50 years since Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara — a colonial occupation sustained by a repressive military apparatus, a deliberate policy of demographic substitution, ...

The blue of the Atlantic glitters on the horizon as trucks, cranes and hundreds of workers transform an obscure swath of desert into a crucial trade link. A new causeway extends more than a mile into ...

South of the Algerian town of Tindouf on the border with Western Sahara are five refugee camps. The camps are home to the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara and are administered by their freedom ...

The UK has repositioned its stance in the Western Sahara conflict. According to British Foreign Secretary David Lammy, the Moroccan autonomy plan represents the "most credible" position. The proposal, ...

Although considered the last African colony by the United Nations, Western Sahara has been occupied by the Kingdom of Morocco for nearly half a century. After Spain ceded Western Sahara as a colony in ...