New York Times: Latitude – Views From Around the World
October 2, 2013,
The Nomads’ No Man’s Land
By HANNAH ARMSTRONG

FREE ZONE, Western Sahara — Some parts of the Sahara are more of a no man’s land than others. The most extreme example is the so-called Free Zone, a strip in the Western Sahara, with territory occupied by Morocco to the west and Algeria to the east. Strewn with mines and inhabited by just a smattering of nomads, the area is controlled by the Polisario Front, a state in exile that has been based in refugee camps in southwestern Algeria since 1976….(cont.)

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