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 ...

The visit was Staffan de Mistura’s first to the Western Sahara since he was appointed in 2021 to oversee U.N. efforts to guide negotiations that date back more than three decades.

The dispute over Western Sahara – roughly 100,000 square miles of sparsely populated land to the south of Morocco and Algeria, and to the west of Mauritania – has become an "intricate" and ...

Ambassador Mouloud Said, the representative of Western Sahara in Washington, disputed Morocco’s claims of sovereignty over the territory at a Harvard Law School event on Monday.

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.

After Spain ceded Western Sahara as a colony in 1975, the former ruler negotiated with Morocco for continued fishing rights and to maintain its fleet of boats – one of the largest in Europe – in ...

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