Ad Dakhla

Hello, fellow readers! I know its been a day since I posted, but yesterday I was making the long journey down to Ad Dakhla!

Ad Dakhla is a beautiful region of Western Sahara, where they have amazing windsurfing and fishing (many places on the coast of Western Sahara is actually very hard and dangerous to access), but I came here for more of a political reasoning!

Ad Dakhla is one of the (many) places in Western Sahara that is under Moroccan control! There's an ongoing conflict about who has the rights to Western Sahara. The sovereignty of the Western Sahara remained the subject of dispute between the Government of Morocco and the Polisario Front (Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro), an organization seeking independence for the region. I came here to discuss with the locals about this situation.

After talking with a few individuals, I've come down to the point where I know that there are really 2 groups involved in this conflict. First, there's the Moroccans, and second, a group of people who believe that Western Sahara should belong to the people who live there. This group is called Sahrawis (which are what the majority of people living in this territory are called).

Here's a new article I found that can really update anyone who wants to know more about this conflict: http://allafrica.com/stories/201410201764.html

But for now, I'm going to spend the day at the beach, enjoying the sounds of the Atlantic Ocean and talk with my new friends! So with that, I hope everyone's day goes 'swimmingly' and no one gets sea sick! (I have terrible puns...)

Until next time fellow readers!