By Dion Nissenbaum
A Sahrawi man waving the flag of the rebel Polisario Front at Moroccan soldiers guarding a wall that separates Western Sahara from Morocco in February 2017. AMAL BELALLOUFI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
The world’s longest minefield stretches hundreds of miles through the Sahara, cutting a path through one of Africa’s quietest conflicts.
For nearly three decades, a few hundred United Nations soldiers have ensured that this 1,700-mile cease-fire line, which separates Moroccan soldiers from an outgunned group of Western Sahara militants striving for independence, has remained quiet.
