Portugal joined other Western countries in expressing a positive view of Morocco's autonomy proposal for the disputed Western ...

Portugal’s decision to support Morocco’s autonomy plan for the disputed territory of Western Sahara sees Lisbon joins a ...

Portugal renewed its support for Morocco’s territorial integrity, describing the Autonomy Plan as most serious basis for the ...

Portugal joined other Western countries in expressing a positive view of Morocco’s autonomy proposal for the disputed Western ...

Christopher Nolan has been accused of enabling colonialism by filming in Western Sahara. The 54-year-old British-American director is shooting parts of The Odyssey in Dakhla, in the disputed territory ...

Director Christopher Nolan has been accused of "enabling colonialism" by filming in a contested part of Africa. The British-American visionary is currently shooting his upcoming blockbuster "The ...

The seminar, held in Portugal, was the latest in a series of confidence-building steps aimed at linking Sahrawi refugees from Tindouf camps in Algeria with their family members in the Territory, ...

The Boucraa mine in Western Sahara has an estimated output of 2.5 million tons per year—a fraction of what Morocco, the world’s largest phosphate exporter, produces annually.

Ideas Western Sahara: Why Africa’s last colony can’t break free In global politics, playing by the rules doesn’t always help. By Jenn Abelson Globe Staff,June 16, 2013, 12:00 a.m.

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.

Morocco moved in to control most of the sparsely populated territory after former colonial ruler Spain withdrew in 1975.

UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, welcomes the successful conclusion on Saturday February 8 of a seminar involving 33 participants from the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria and Western Sahara ...