Jordan to open consulate in Western Sahara amid dispute

Tags : Western Sahara, Frente Polisario, Morocco, Algeria, ONU, MINURSO, The two years of rupture of the ceasefire by the Polisario Front fuel the outbreak of tension between Morocco and Algeria derived from Rabat’s historic […]

Sahrawi children from Western Sahara sit in their classroom in the Smara refugee camp near Tindouf, south-western Algeria, March 4, 2016. (AP/ Toukik Doudou). They are both rugged regions claimed by an indigenous population but […]

Disputed and divided Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony, mostly under Morocco’s control, where tensions have simmered since the 1970s. An Algerian-backed independence movement — which holds a fifth of the territory … Read […]