Over 90,000 Refugees Left in the Sahara Desert for 30 Years
source: http://uscri.refugees.org/site/PageNavigator/tindouf_slideshow
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Sahrawi refugees are among the longest warehoused refugee groups in the world. In a situation lasting over 30 years, more than 90,000 refugees wait in four remote refugee camps -- El Aaiun, Awserd, Smara, and Dakhla -- in the desolate Sahara desert in southwest Algeria.
The international community has all but forgotten these men, women and children, who fled their homes in the mid-seventies because of fighting between the Moroccan military and the Polisario Front, a rebel group who seeks independence for the Western Sahara. The refugees remain trapped to this day in refugee camps in a remote part of the Sahara often referred to as "The Devil's Garden."
What can we americans do about this? Since we're so privileged to be in America and not in their shoes.... Read the full article to fully understand why we must help.
The international community has all but forgotten these men, women and children, who fled their homes in the mid-seventies because of fighting between the Moroccan military and the Polisario Front, a rebel group who seeks independence for the Western Sahara. The refugees remain trapped to this day in refugee camps in a remote part of the Sahara often referred to as "The Devil's Garden."
What can we americans do about this? Since we're so privileged to be in America and not in their shoes.... Read the full article to fully understand why we must help.
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- Community, Algerian Alpacas
