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SLIDESHOW: Western Sahara dispute
20 Mar 2006
Source: AlertNet
A Sahrawi demonstrator holds an image of a landmine victim to highlight the continuing risks faced by people living in Tifariti, the "liberated zone" of Western Sahara.
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A Sahrawi demonstrator holds an image of a landmine victim to highlight the continuing risks faced by people living in Tifariti, the "liberated zone" of Western Sahara.
Photo by Saeed Taji Farouky
Photographer Saeed Taji Farouky visited Western Sahara in late February as indigenous Sahrawi people marked 30 years of struggle for independence with little hope in sight of a solution to Africa's longest-running territorial dispute.

He also visited sprawling desert refugee camps in Algeria, home to tens of thousands of Sahrawi people displaced in one of the continent's remotest corners since Morocco's 1975 seizure of most of mineral-rich Western Sahara.

Click here to see his photographs. For key background information, see AlertNet's crisis profile.

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