2025 marks 50 years since Morocco invaded Western Sahara, forcibly displacing the Sahrawi people into neighbouring Algeria. Women’s rights and climate activist Najla Mohamed-Lamin joins us from the Sahrawi refugee camps to talk about the multigenerational impact of 50 years of forced exile, and the common struggles of Indigenous peoples around the world.

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Host: Maxine Betteridge-Moes

Credits: Maxine Betteridge-Moes (Producer, Digital Editor), Amy Hall, Bethany Rielly, Conrad Landin, Nick Dowson (Co-Editors), Paula Lacey (Editorial Assistant), Samuel Rafanell-Williams (Sound Design), Nazik Hamza (Audio Editor), Mari Fouz (Logo Design)

Guest: Najla Mohammed-Lamine

Further reading from this episode:

With all eyes on Gaza, Morocco strengthens its hold on Western Sahara (Maxine Betteridge-Moes, New Internationalist)

Love Locked Up (Maxine Betteridge-Moes, New Internationalist)

Spotlight: Aziza Brahim (Graeme Green, New Internationalist)

A new dawn? Western Sahara and the Arab Spring (Jeremy Corbyn & Stefan Simanowitz, New Internationalist)

War and Peace in Western Sahara (New Internationalist Issue #297) Subscribe to read in our digital archive.

How Sahrawis See the Western Sahara Conflict (Najla Mohamed-Lamin, The National Interest)

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