Sahara Libre!
Four
decades after its people were promised freedom by departing Spanish
rulers, the Western Sahara remains Africa’s last colony. While a
UN-brokered ceasefire put an end to armed hostilities in the territory
in 1991, the Sahrawi people have continued to live under the oppressive
occupation of the Moroccan armed forces, and what peace exists in the
area is fragile at best. Tens of thousands of Sahrawis have fled to
neighboring Algeria, where over 125,000 refugees still live in camps
that were intended to be temporary.
