{"id":4628,"date":"2021-01-04T03:31:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T03:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/04\/western-sahara-a-rare-look-inside-africas-last-colony-as-u-s-recognizes-moroccan-occupation-2\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T03:31:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T03:31:02","slug":"western-sahara-a-rare-look-inside-africas-last-colony-as-u-s-recognizes-moroccan-occupation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/04\/western-sahara-a-rare-look-inside-africas-last-colony-as-u-s-recognizes-moroccan-occupation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Sahara: A Rare Look Inside Africa\u2019s Last Colony as U.S. Recognizes Moroccan Occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The United States has become the first nation in the world to recognize Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara. The Trump administration announced the major policy shift on December 10 \u2014 International Human Rights Day \u2014 as part of a deal that saw Morocco become the fourth Arab nation to normalize ties to Israel in recent months. In this special rebroadcast of a Democracy Now! exclusive documentary, we break the media blockade and go to occupied Western Sahara in the northwest of Africa to document the decades-long Sahrawi struggle for freedom and Morocco’s violent crackdown. In late 2016, Democracy Now! managed to get into the Western Saharan city of Laayoune, becoming the first international news team to report from the occupied territory in years. Many of the Sahrawis in this film are currently under police siege or in hiding.<\/p>\n

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