Western Sahara: Morocco's Deadly Wall Across Western Sahara - Why the 2,700km Berm Was Built and the Damage It Does

[The Conversation Africa] 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 militarised borders. The region is the focus of a project at the University of Porto exploring prospects for biodiversity restoration. Joana Castro Pereira, a professor of politics and international relations, and postgraduate researcher Simón Pardo de