3 Stolen Cameras
The members of video activist group, Equipe Media, fight to keep their cameras. They use them to document the Moroccan kingdoms’ violations of human rights in Africa’s last colony – Western Sahara.
Rifles or graffiti. The nonviolent struggle of the Sahrawi People
Since the ceasefire agreement in 1991 the Sahrawis have engaged in a decades long non-violent struggle against the occupation. With no political solution on the horizon and an intransigent Morocco supported by the United States the young Sahrawis in the refugee camps are growing more restless and asking whether a return to the armed struggle is the only way to gain freedom.
Life is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara
What will it take for the people of Western Sahara to reverse decades of broken promises and gain their freedom? What lessons does Sahrawi resistance offer for nonviolent movements around the world? Join an incredible cast of Sahrawi activists and artists as they offer their answers. More than four decades after its people were promised freedom by departing Spanish rulers, the Western Sahara remains Africa’s last colony.
The Sahara’s Forgotten War
VICE News travels to Western Sahara's occupied and liberated territories, as well as the Polisario-run refugee camps in Algeria, to find out more about one of the world's least reported conflicts.
Gdeim Izik – The Sahrawi Resistance Camp
A documentary banned by the Moroccan monarchy. Shows the spark that ignited the so-called Arab Spring. They have taken an extraordinary documentary and have been excellent witnesses, Mohamed Abdelaziz. President of the Saharawi Republic. The documentary shows the daily life and the violent eviction that the Sahrawi civilians lived in the Gdeim Izik camp, caused by the Moroccan occupation forces in the territory of Western Sahara. Place: Gdeim Izik Camp and Aaiún City, Western Sahara