Once a colony of Spain, Western Sahara is Africa’s only remaining colony.

After promising the Sahrawi of Western Sahara their right to self determination, Spain simply left, allowing Morocco and Mauritania to invade. Today, Morocco occupies much of the Western Sahara. It’s been 43 years since the International Court of Justice rejected Morocco’s claims and found that the Sahrawi people living there had a right to self-determination. Yet Morocco continues its brutal occupation, and its king routinely thumbs his nose at international legal and public pressure to free the Western Sahara.