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

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

The Polisario Front has responded to Portugal’s recent endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara by urging ...

Portugal on Tuesday became the latest nation to back Morocco's plan to give autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty to the disputed Western Sahara territory.

She’s joining us from Portugal. Ana Gomes, ... Western Sahara is a part of the greatest lobbying effort of Morocco not just in the EU but also vis-à-vis the United Nations, ...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the push for independence in Western Sahara, Africa’s last “non-self-governing territory.” The Polisario Front—the formerly armed nationalist group ...

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.

The Western Sahara is a “territory in the process of decolonization” according to the U.N. It was a Spanish colony until 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 ...

News about Western Sahara, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Western Sahara remained a Spanish colony until 1975 when the Moroccan government organized a so-called “Green March” with 350,000 protesters marching into Western Sahara to claim the land.

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