The Algeria-backed Polisario says it has repeatedly bombarded Moroccan positions on the sand wall that Rabat built in the 1980s along much of the frontier running for hundreds of miles through ...

Sand dunes, camels and clay castles in Moroccan desert. GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO Associated Press. ... (10 feet) of turquoise fabric around my head into a sand-proof turban called a shesh, ...

July 8, 2013— -- intro: When it comes to protecting themselves from what they fear, humans have a real knack for building walls and fences. The U.S. has been busily building a fence along its ...

A camel is led across the sand dunes in Erg Chebbi, Morocco, at the edge of the Saharan Desert in June 2013. The route from Marrakech, Morocco, to the Saharan desert follows one of Africa’s most ...

The sand berms separating Moroccan territories and Mauritania. Image: Getty Images/AFP/P. Hertzog Still, the question of governance in the territory remains unresolved to this day.

The territory is divided in half by a 1,600-mile sand wall and surrounded by some 9 million land mines. Western Sahara is the native land of Sahrawis, or “People of the desert,” in northern ...

The Moroccan wall is a 2,500-kilometre-long system of defensive barriers, spanning Western Sahara from the Algerian and Mauritanian borders to the Atlantic Ocean.

From the air, Morocco`s ”Great Wall” against the Polisario guerrillas runs like a thin brown welt across the vast gray emptiness of the Sahara, fading into the mirages that shimmer on the ...