Western Sahara Travel News

Morocco's King Mohamed has called for action against traitors who threatened the country's "territorial integrity", a direct warning to Western Sahara independence campaigners.

RABAT: Morocco ordered on Wednesday the immediate departure of a Swedish diplomat accused of handing official Moroccan documents to Western Sahara-linked "separatists," the Foreign Ministry said.

Last week a delegation of MPs visited Downing Street to highlight the plight of Western Sahara's 165,000 refugees, homeless since being forced from their lands by Moroccan forces in 1975.

Eighteen years ago today, the Polisario Front laid down their arms, ending a 16-year war with Morocco.

Morocco will take part in a limited-person meeting in Austria on Aug. 9 to 11, at the invitation of UN Secretary General's Special Envoy Christopher Ross, to seek a permanent solution to the issue of Western Sahara, state MAP news agency quoted Moroccan Foreign Ministry as saying.

Morocco will take part in a limited-person meeting in Austria on Aug. 9 to 11, at the invitation of UN Secretary General's Special Envoy Christopher Ross, to seek a permanent solution to the issue of Western Sahara, state MAP news agency quoted Moroccan Foreign Ministry as saying.

STUDENTS from North Africa have been prevented from travelling to Oxford for a conference, the organisers said today.