The Berm of Western Sahara, a country not recognized by the United Nations.

 

The Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) was proclaimed by the Polisario Front on February 27, 1976. The SADR government controls about 20-25% of the territory it claims, called the Free Zone. The rest is controlled by Morocco who built the longest active military wall that divides the Saharawi people.

 

 “Wall of Shame,” approximately 2,700 km-long it divides the 190,000 Saharawi refugees in Algeria from their families and friends in the Moroccan held territory, but also because it threatens the lives and livelihoods of the thousands of Saharawi nomads that still wander through the Western Sahara’s deserts.

 

Torture, political prisoners, disappearance, occupied territory, landless, governed by women, positive and unite Saharawi.

 

In 2007, we travelled 5000 miles around the wall from Marrakech to Tindouf through Mauritania and Tifariti, Western Sahara as a way to show solidarity to the Sarahawis living in the Occupied zone of Western Sahara , who have to travel all around the wall illegally to visit or join their families.