Washington Post article and video on struggle of Western Sahara’s refugees
Jacob Mundy
January 2015
Washington Post article and video discusses role of women, political impasse in Western Sahara
Jacob Mundy
July 2013
While other colonies in Africa threw off occupiers one by one, this rocky desert expanse on the continent’s northwestern coast remains a disputed territory controlled primarily by next-door Morocco and locked in a nearly 40-year-old forgotten struggle for the right to choose its fate. And in a Muslim-majority region where women are often marginalized from politics, women have taken an unusually prominent role in Western Sahara’s independence movement.
