When a Moroccan today refers to Agadir as being in “south Morocco,” a colonial ghost haunts the language. Unbeknownst to many, this casual phrase unintentionally excludes Western Sahara from Morocco’s ...

UNITED NATIONS – The Polisario Front independence movement in Western Sahara says Morocco must recognize the region as independent now that it has rejoined the African Union and accepted the ...

Morocco has rejected an explanation offered by United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon for controversial comments he about the disputed Western Sahara region. The North African country has been locked in a ...

On October 31, 2025, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted a landmark resolution recognizing Morocco’s Autonomy Plan as the sole and legitimate basis for a lasting resolution of the ...

Although considered the last African colony by the United Nations, Western Sahara has been occupied by the Kingdom of Morocco for nearly half a century. After Spain ceded Western Sahara as a colony in ...

Western Sahara is not a geopolitical puzzle maintained by rival regimes. It is an unfinished decolonization process, recognized as such by international law. The Sahrawi people are not a prop, nor a ...

Israel announced Monday it was recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, joining the United States as the only countries to acknowledge the kingdom's annexation of the disputed North ...

Chance discoveries while traveling give another dimension to what’s been planned and researched. So often it’s the unexpected things that are best remembered and inspire a return visit. In 2024, I had ...

In February, the Kingdom of Morocco suspended diplomatic relations with the European Union. This extreme measure was taken in response to a December 2015 ruling by the Court of Justice of the European ...

The European Court of Justice (CJEU) has once again demonstrated that the European Union remains a community built on the rule of law. For the fifth time, it has rejected efforts by the Council of the ...

A nearly three-decade-old ceasefire has ended in occupied Western Sahara — what many consider to be Africa’s last colony. Fighting has broken out in several areas between the Moroccan military and the ...

Riot police block demonstrators during a job protest after two miners died while working in a clandestine coal mine, in Jerada, Morocco, December 27, 2017. Demonstrating increasing intolerance of ...