Western Sahara

Western Sahara carries 245 connections with 11721 other places across 22 topics, shaped by a prolonged sovereignty dispute that has drawn in states across three continents. Government and military connections account for the bulk of the total, rooted in Morocco's occupation since 1975, when 350,000 Moroccans crossed into the territory in the Green March. Morocco shares the most connections with Western Sahara in the graph. Spain and Algeria each appear across many of the same threads. Debates over the legality of resource extraction under international law add a further layer to the graph.