Unreported World: Western Sahara: Storm In The Sahara

This week's Unreported World travels to a country that officially doesn't exist, where families are divided from their homeland by a vast wall running through the desert and where there are allegations of torture and other human rights abuses: the Western Sahara. Reporter Khalid Khazziha begins his journey at the western edge of the Sahara Desert, walking through a minefield towards one of the most dangerous borders in the world. The border is marked by the Berm, a vast wall 2,500 kilometres long and built by Morocco, which divides this disputed area of the Western Sahara into a Moroccan zone and the so-called Liberated Zone. Morocco took control of the Western Sahara in 1975 following the end of the Spanish occupation. Many of the local Sawahari inhabitants, who had been fighting for independence, fled into an area they called the liberated zone and which is now home to hundreds of thousands of refugees. They call the zone an independent republic, but it is not recognised by the UN. Unreported World talks to some refugees who have been living here for more than 30 years.