Western Sahara ConflictWestern Sahara / Morocco · 1970-ongoing“Look west to the desert the world keeps postponing, where a promised vote became a generation's waiting room.”As Spanish rule weakened, Sahrawi nationalists organised through the Polisario Front. In 1975, Morocco's Green March pressed the claim from the north, Spain withdrew, and Western Sahara became a question handed from empire to war.The lesson the elders kept: A referendum promised and denied becomes its own conflict. Western Sahara teaches that unresolved self-determination does not fade just because powerful states grow tired of the question.