Morocco’s deadly wall across Western Sahara: why the 2,700km Berm was built and the damage it does

By Joana Castro Pereira, Professor of Politics and International Relations, Universidade do Porto
Simón Pardo de Donlebún Versaci, Postgraduate researcher, Universidade do Porto

Western Sahara has been carved in two since the 1980s by a wall that Morocco built to hold on to territory it occupied in 1975. Fifty years on, the conflict remains unresolved and the wall – known as the Berm – remains one of the world’s most…

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