(Bloomberg) -- 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 ...

WESTERN SAHARA’S Polisario Front warned yesterday that war in Africa’s last colony could reignite if the UN does not set a date for a long-delayed independence referendum. Bachir Mustafa Sayed, ...

Ghana's suspension of diplomatic ties with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic has sparked widespread criticism.

though Mauritania and Algeria had to fight bloody wars for their own independence. Spain finally withdrew from Western Sahara in 1975 after the death of fascist dictator General Franco. But it handed ...

The occupied Western Sahara, which is about the size of the United Kingdom, is the last African colonial state yet to achieve independence, often called 'Africa's last colony'. The region was ...

The protest was held in the Porco district of Laayoune with youths calling for independence from Morocco. Morocco annexed the Western Sahara territory, a former Spanish colony, in 1975 ...

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France and Algeria's complicated relationship is deteriorating, with mounting economic and diplomatic tensions. President ...