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. Skip to main content.

The other side of the Moroccan Wall Habib Mohaed, refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria 10/07/2015 October 7, 2015. Little is known about the longest minefield on the planet beyond the people it’s ...

The wall roughly parallels the coastline and is placed so that nearly 80 percent of the Western Sahara is west of the wall—that’s the most valuable land and is what Morocco controls.

The knock on the outside of our wall tent came too early. It was 5:30 a.m. and my alarm failed to go off. But I didn’t want to miss the sunrise over the Sahara ... particularly while riding a camel.