The Number One Ladiesβ Landmine Agency
The Sahrawi women clearing up unexploded bombs left in the world's longest minefield
We follow a unique group of Sahrawi women working alongside the worldβs longest minefield, the 2,700km sand wall or berm built by Morocco across the region. Baba, Minetou, Nora and the team work in temperatures exceeding 42Β°c (107Β°f), hundreds of miles from even rudimentary medical care, risking their lives in Western Saharaβs so-called βLiberated Territoriesβ east of the Berm, clearing some of the seven million landmines and unexploded bombs left over from the still unresolved conflict between Morocco and the ethnic Sahrawi liberation movement, the Polisario Front.
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