In the shadowless reaches of the Spanish Sahara, some 40 miles from the Atlantic Coast, the dusty oasis of Bu-Craa swelters in the middle of a moonscape of endless dunes and burned-out scrub. It is an ...

Western Sahara is a disputed territory in north-west Africa. It lies south of Morocco, north-east of Mauritania, and west of Algeria. It was formerly known as Spanish Sahara, until Spain’s withdrawal ...

The drive to claim North Africa tor the North Africans leaped suddenly southward along the Atlantic last week. This time the beleaguered colonists were the Spanish, not the French. Back in 1860 ...

In a little-known 1957 conflict, Moroccos Liberation Army staged a bold offensive against Spanish colonial rule in Ifni and Western Sahara, capturing key territories and besieging Spanish strongholds, ...