Located in north-west Africa, just 140 kilometers from the Canary Islands, Western Sahara is a desert landscape with an arid climate. Since 1973, the POLISARIO liberation front has been fighting ...

Relegating the main theme of the meeting—the Libyan crisis—to the background, the general condemned «Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara», according to a Polisario-affiliated media outlet ...

The lack of a clear choice over Western Sahara's future has set settlers against local people in some - not all - cases and brought a huge police and army presence to the region. Why? A conflict going ...