Sahara Desert

Netanyahu hails Moroccan king for UN resolution backing Western Sahara autonomy plan

“I wish to congratulate His Majesty King Mohammed VI for the endorsement by the UN Security Council of a resolution which supports Morocco’s autonomy plan," Netanyahu said.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the government's cabinet formalizes the normalization agreement with Morocco.
A car is seen during the visit of UN Western Sahara envoy Staffan de Mistura at the Military Museum in refugee camp in Tindouf, Algeria, January 16, 2022.

UN calls for Western Sahara talks based on Morocco's autonomy plan

Western Sahara, a tract of desert the size of Britain, has been the scene of Africa's longest-running territorial dispute since colonial power Spain left in 1975 and Morocco annexed the territory.

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Amazigh people celebrate their new year outside the parliament with calls on the government to recognize the day as an official holiday and put more effort into supporting their language in Rabat, Morocco January 13, 2023.

Morocco’s Amazigh revival: From ancient roots to modern identity

Middle East scholar Dr. Mohamed Chtatou: 'The Amazigh did not reject the Jews or the Arabs who came later; they integrated them.'

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Palm trees in green oasis in desert arid landscape between Agdz and Zagora towns in Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.

Ancient DNA reveals lost human tribe that lived in Green Sahara

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green Sahara as a migration corridor.

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French minister in Western Sahara to back Moroccan sovereignty

Morocco has also won backing from Western Sahara's former colonial power Spain, as well as Israel and more than two dozen African and Arab nations.

FEBRUARY 17, 2025ByREUTERS
MOROCCAN SOLDIERS are seen on an earth wall that separates areas controlled by Morocco and the Polisario Front in Western Sahara, in 2016.

Study identifies Amazon and Sahara regions as birthplace of earliest dinosaurs

Remains of earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered due to inaccessibility and lack of research efforts.

JANUARY 26, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Is this the birthplace of the dinosaurs?

How the 'Black Beauty' of Sahara helped scientists determine hot water existed on the Red Planet

The presence of hot liquid water during early magmatic activity on Mars supports the idea that suitable conditions for the emergence of life existed on the Red Planet.

NOVEMBER 24, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Mars landscape.

Moroccan King invites Netanyahu to Rabat

President Herzog met with the Congressional Abraham Accords caucus immediately after his address to both houses of Congress.

JULY 19, 2023ByLAHAV HARKOV
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the government's cabinet formalizes the normalization agreement with Morocco.

Israel recognizes Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu relayed the decision to King Mohammed VI in writing, the Royal Office explained. 

JULY 17, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Moroccan and Israeli officials sign memorandums of understanding in Rabat on December 22, 2020.