Western Sahara "The Worst Police State I've Ever Seen"

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Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/cogito Watch Mad Kings by RealLifeLore here: https://go.nebula.tv/madkings?ref=cogito Share nebula with your friends: https://gift.nebula.tv/cogito Get Nebula forever with just 1 payment: https://go.nebula.tv/lifetime?ref=cogito Running through the Sahara Desert is the longest fortified wall in existence after the Great Wall of China. It’s a massive 2,700km sand wall. 17 times longer than the Berlin Wall, but far deadlier. Guarded by 130,000 soldiers. Patrolled by Israeli drones. Surrounded by nine million landmines, the densest minefield on Earth.  This is the Berm. You’ve most likely never seen it. The Kingdom of Morocco wants it to stay that way. The Berm slices through Western Sahara, a place maps can’t even agree exists. Beneath its sands lie some of Earth’s largest deposits of phosphate, desperately needed to fertilise the world’s farms. Its fishing waters feed European markets. Its wind and sun power distant cities, all without the consent of the local people. Fifty years ago, Spain promised the people here a vote to choose their future.  Instead this land was invaded The vote never happened. And Western Sahara remains the last colony in Africa, here’s why… https://www.patreon.com/CogitoEdu Follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/CogitoEdu Or Reddit r/cogitoedu Or Facebook @CogitoYT SOURCES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S6u3ZwmcyBGYUzJVpkq7mMsHcHcbUO8pB3U2hnNNuTs/edit?usp=sharing Music by Epidemic Sound: https://epidemicsound.com/creator Video/Images provided by Getty Images and Archive.org and Reuters Maps provided by maptiler/Geolayers