United Nations, April 2008 – Africa’s Sahara, home to some of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, is also home to the continent’s oldest running territorial conflict. For over thirty years this dispute has left tens of thousands of Western Sahara refugees in camps that straddle its border. For decades, families have been divided. But now, there’s a very special programme that reunites them.
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