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The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) has strongly objected to a political analyst's recent comparison of Mindanao’s ...

In October of last year, the European Court of Justice invalidated trade agreements between the European Union and Morocco involving the Moroccan Sahara. The court argued that these agreements lacked ...

Credit: Ben Lovett Analysis of Moroccan stalagmites reveals that the Sahara received increased rainfall between 8,700 and 4,300 years ago, supporting early herding societies. This rainfall, likely ...

Morocco governs most of the Western Sahara – and has done since Spanish powers left in the 1970s – but liberation movement the Polisario Front claims it as an independent state. The UN calls ...

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Since 1991, the United Nations has led a series of fruitless efforts to resolve the standoff over Western Sahara. A swath of desert about the size of the entire United Kingdom, Western Sahara is ...