[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The United Nations General Assembly's Fourth Committee has reaffirmed Western Sahara's status as a decolonisation issue, with 152 countries, including Morocco, voting in favour of an annual resolution amid a decades-long dispute over the territory's political future.
[Liberian Investigator] Liberia has again backed Morocco's autonomy proposal for Western Sahara, telling a United Nations committee that the plan is the most realistic and feasible basis currently available to advance the UN-led political process on the disputed territory.
[The Conversation Africa] Western Sahara has been carved in two since the 1980s by a wall that Morocco built to hold on to territory it occupied in 1975. Fifty years on, the conflict remains unresolved and the wall - known as the Berm - remains one of the world's most militarised borders. The region is the focus of a project at the University of Porto exploring prospects for biodiversity restoration. Joana Castro Pereira, a professor of politics and international relations, and postgraduate researcher Simón Pardo de