(New York) - Moroccan security forces repeatedly beat and abused people they detained following disturbances on November 8, 2010, in the Western Sahara capital city of El-Ayoun, Human Rights Watch ...

I pressed on to the capital, Laayoune, where 40 percent of the 600,000 Western Sahara residents live. Laayounne has no fresh water source. It gets its water from a desalination plant.

As dusk enveloped the salmon-pink houses of this capital city, the brightly colored robes of women stood out in a mass of protesters chanting for independence from Moroccan rule.

France's intention to use the French Development Agency (AFD) to fund projects in the disputed Sahrawi regions is a "provocative" step, Algerian state media reported on Sunday, citing a statement ...

A picture taken on May 13, 2013 shows facilities of the factory of the national Moroccan phosphates company, OCP, in Marca near Laayoune, the capital of Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara.

Larbass Abid, a Sahrawi, was born in Laayoune — Western Sahara’s largest city and its capital. His people have been seeking independence from Morocco since 1976, when Spain abandoned its ...

Moroccan protesters demonstrate against comments made by U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon in the capital Rabat on March 13. Ban referred to the disputed Western Sahara region, which is mostly administered ...

The Boucraa mine in Western Sahara has an estimated output of 2.5 million tons per year—a fraction of what Morocco, the world’s largest phosphate exporter, produces annually.

In this photo taken Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, Western Saharan women confront riot police in Laayoune, the capital of the disputed territory of the Western Sahara.

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 Government of Western Sahara operates not from its own capital city, L’ayoun, but from a small patch of desert over the border in Algeria. Here there is another L’ayoun, just as there is another ...

The Trump administration, in its waning days, formally recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara and agreed to open a U.S. consulate there in late 2020 as an incentive for Morocco to ...