November 11, 2026
Around 80 percent of Western Sahara is occupied by Morocco and more than half of its people live as refugees, yet the Saharawi people maintain their own democratic government in exile.
Western Sahara: Occupied. Betrayed. Ignored. walks through the history of the conflict and its legal background, and argues that successive US administrations, from Gerald Ford to Donald Trump and Joe Biden, have traded away Saharawi rights in return for diplomatic gains.
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