Western Sahara

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• 🏜Western Sahara has been on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories since 1963, and its final status remains unresolved.
• 🧱The Western Sahara Berm is a roughly 2,700 km system of sand walls built during the 1975–1991 conflict. Minefields and explosive remnants of war remain a hazard, especially east of the Berm.
• 🦭The lonely cliffs of the Cabo Blanco peninsula shelter the world's largest colony of Mediterranean monk seals — one of the rarest marine mammals on the planet, with only a few hundred left worldwide, surviving on this isolated desert coast far from human interference.
• 🍵Among the nomadic Sahrawi, hospitality follows a strict three-cup tea ritual: guests are always served exactly three glasses of hot, frothy mint tea — the first bitter like life, the second sweet like love, the third soft like death. Refusing any cup is considered highly impolite.