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 ...

Morocco is set to transform its southernmost coastal town of Lagouira (La Güera) into a large-scale tourism village, backed by Emirati investment, as the kingdom accelerates infrastructure development ...

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called for the complete decolonisation of Western Sahara and 16 other territories still under colonial rule. Guterres urged renewed ...

The US has hosted representatives of Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria and the Polisario Front, the Sahrawi national liberation movement, in Madrid for secret talks to discuss the occupied Western Sahara.

Known as “La Calima,” this desert dust plume could hit Spain, Portugal and France, bringing with it grit-laden, rust-colored ...

Western Sahara is the only place in Africa that never completed the decolonization process, despite decades of United Nations involvement. A referendum on independence promised in the early 1990s was ...

Dust plumes, whipped up by winds over the Sahara Desert, are moving over western Europe. This annual phenomenon—known in ...

(Bloomberg) -- The US said it convened rivals Morocco and Algeria for rare talks over the fate of the Western Sahara, as the Trump administration tries to resolve one of Africa’s longest-running ...

Recent efforts by a limited number of voices within the U.S. Congress to reframe the Western Sahara issue through a narrow security lens raise questions that go beyond the nature of the dispute itself ...

In the plush drawing rooms of the US Embassy in Madrid – far from the microphones, press releases, and public posturing – was scheduled a meeting that was much more than a "technical consultation".

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that served as a “war machine” in an army sent to invade the Roman Republic.

Mauritania is a vital buffer against Sahelian instability and a central partner for Europe’s energy and migration policies. As Gulf Arab influence grows, the EU ...