- Conflicts and Disasters
In South-West Algeria, thousands of people live in camps. They’re Sahrawi refugees. They have been waiting for 40 years for a resolution of the conflict about Western Sahara.
Mamia Ahmed Filali lives in the Layoune refugee camp. Despite being only 25, she feels the weight of these 40 years in exile.
“For me, those 40 years are 40 years of a life without passport, without citizenship. I feel on the fringe, as if I wasn’t a complete human being. We’ve been living cut in half for 40 years.”
“Yet, I have a lot hope, but the field of this hope is very narrow: we still have hope to come back to our country. I’ve only studied in the camps but I would like to pursue my studies further, so I could better defend our cause. And also, I would like to go into the territories that are under Moroccan control, to see how it is there.”
Photo: Tineke D’Haese/Oxfam
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