Safía, a Sahrawi Woman Held in Algeria by the Frente Polisario

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Safia, a 28-year-old Saharawi, lives hidden in a small room in Algiers. She barely goes out into the street and, when she does so, calls volunteers from the Saharawi Feminist Movement to accompany her. She fears that they will kidnap her, force her into a car, and that her trail will be lost in Hamada, the inhospitable desert in Algerian territory where the Saharan refugee camps in Tindouf are located, some 1,700 kilometres further south. For 17…