London, July 16, 2014 (SPS) - The London-based international news channel “VICE News” has started as from Monday the broadcasting of a series of five documentaries about the forgotten conflict of Western Sahara, entitled “the Sahara’s Forgotten War.”
VICE News travels to Western Sahara’s occupied and liberated territories, as well as the Saharawi refugee camps in Algeria, to find out more about the conflict of Western Sahara, one of the world’s least-reported conflicts.
The documentary included several interviews with Saharawi officials and military cadres.
In the 1st part of these series, VICE News attends the 38th-anniversary celebration of the proclamation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
In the 2nd part, it attends a Saharawi protest near the Moroccan military wall that separates Western Sahara, in their way to the Saharawi refugee camps.
In the 3rd part, VICE News team finds out how the Polisario tackle the threats of terrorism and drug smuggling in the liberated territories of Western Sahara.
In the 4th part, they got in touch with the Sahrawis living under Moroccan rule in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, where they met with Sahrawis whose activism puts them in the infamous Black Prison.
Established in 1994, VICE News is an international news channel created by and for a connected generation. It is followed by 8 million people worldwide. (SPS)
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