Article on the Western Sahara

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Will Freedom Bloom in the Desert?

By FREDERICK VREELAND

Published: March 3, 2007

Rome

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A YEAR ago, unusually heavy rain storms destroyed half of the camps in Algeria where some 90,000 refugees from the disputed territory of the Western Sahara have been eking out a miserable existence for more than 30 years.

I have been involved in North African affairs for 40 years, and for most of that time the problem of the Western Sahara has envenomed relations among its neighbors and immiserated the Saharan population.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/opinion/...0and%20Refugees

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The situation in Western Sahara has to be resolved. The refugees living in Algeria are livign in terrible conditions. algeria is playing politics with these people and does not have the best interests of the native people of the western sahara in mind. Morocco is pouring a huge amount of its total budget into Western Sahara and other regions in the country are suffering for it.