Western Sahara’s Sahrawi Refugees Face an Uncertain Future after 50 Years of Exile

For five decades, Sahrawi refugees have been displaced from Western Sahara, which many people call “Africa’s last colony” and which the United Nations considers the world’s largest and most populous non-self-governing territory. As this article details, young Sahrawis have for decades left the isolated refugee camps to study and live abroad, but many seem increasingly inclined not to return.