Dakhla is a city in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, and has been occupied by Morocco since 1979. It is the capital of the claimed Moroccan administrative region Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab. It has
Dakhla, Western Sahara
Early Spanish provisional settlement in the Río de Oro Peninsula during the exploratory works led by Emilio Bonelli (published in January 1885 in La Ilustración Española y Americana).
Windsurfer and the Dragon Island in the background
Western Sahara is a United Nations–designated non-self-governing territory in north-western Africa. It has a surface area of 272,000 square kilometres. Western Sahara is the last African colonial stat
Dakhla, Western Sahara
…Dakhla (Arabic: الداخلة, lit. 'The Peninsula', Hassaniyya: ; founded as Villa Cisneros) is a city in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, and has been occupied by Morocco since 1979. It is the capital of the claimed Moroccan administrative region Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab. It has a population…
Commemoration of the 30th independence day from Spain in the Liberated Territories (2005)
A demonstration in Madrid for the independence of Western Sahara
A MINURSO car (left), and a post of the Polisario Front (right) in 2017 in southern Western Sahara
As part of the Israel–Morocco normalization agreement, the United States became the first state to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara.