The Wall of Shame. Western Sahara is divided into three areas. ... Although the Wall of Shame is built of sand, “it’s the most dangerous wall in the world,” a Polisario soldier says.

WHILE the eyes of the world are fixed upon the genocide in Gaza, the 50th anniversary of another neocolonial conflict has gone relatively unnoticed. In 1975, Morocco annexed the adjacent territory of ...

"One of the more difficult places to visit is the sparsely populated territory known as Western Sahara," writes John P. Smith ...

Morocco says Western Sahara, a sparsely populated tract of desert that has phosphates, ... sand wall that separates a 100,000 strong Moroccan army from over 10,000 Polisario soldiers. ...

In the Western imagination, the Sahara is an empty space, a state of nature. Some locals shared this view before Europeans discovered the savannah south of the sands. Ibn Khaldun, the polymath ...