Portugal joined other Western countries in expressing a positive view of Morocco's autonomy proposal for the disputed Western ...

Portugal renewed its support for Morocco’s territorial integrity, describing the Autonomy Plan as most serious basis for the ...

Portugal’s decision to support Morocco’s autonomy plan for the disputed territory of Western Sahara sees Lisbon joins a ...

Director Christopher Nolan has been accused of "enabling colonialism" by filming in a contested part of Africa. The British-American visionary is currently shooting his upcoming blockbuster "The ...

Portugal on Tuesday became the latest nation to back Morocco's plan to give autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty to the disputed Western Sahara territory.

Campaigners and filmmakers are angry over the Oscar-winning director's new film using territory occupied by Morocco since ...

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 ...

Mauritania has, however, given up all claims to the disputed region. Western Sahara is an arid and inhospitable territory that is the second most sparsely populated area in the world. It covers some ...

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.

The seminar, held in Portugal, was the latest in a series of confidence-building steps aimed at linking Sahrawi refugees from Tindouf camps in Algeria with their family members in the Territory, ...

Western Sahara has been disputed by Morocco and the national liberation movement since the 1970s. After an unsuccessful referendum in 1991, the territory’s legal status remains contentious.

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