Western Sahara

There is a long, if surprising, alliance between two very different African leaders: the puritanical President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda and the extravagant Colonel Moammar el...

Despite the intervention by the United States, which has seen two rounds of direct talks between the Moroccan government and the Polisario Front liberation movement, tensions are again...

After seven frustrating years, former United States Secretary of State James Baker III has resigned as the United Nations Secretary General's Special Envoy to Western Sahara. He is...

The row over who owns the Western Sahara's mineral rights is reopening. British-based Wessex Exploration has applied to Morocco's Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines to explore...

King Mohammed VI has woken up to the realisation that Morocco's campaign to impose its sovereignty over Western Sahara has entered a dangerous new phase. For three decades,...

As it tries to regain some of the initiative in the struggle for Western Sahara, Morocco will seek to pull in debts from several West African and other...

Morocco has been outmanoeuvred in the United Nations. Algeria persuaded the Polisario Front it should accept the plan drawn up by UN Special Envoy James Baker III for...

Morocco, the Polisario Front and their allies are lobbying hard before the United Nations Security Council's 30 April vote on the future of its Western Sahara mission (AC...

The United Nations has issued an ambiguous legal opinion about exploration licences in the ocean off Western Sahara, and Morocco is objecting to exploration by Spain's Repsol YPF...

Hopes that the people of Western Sahara might one day decide their own future (AC Vol 42 No 10) have been dealt a possibly fatal blow by Rabat's...