Trump, Ryanair, The Odyssey… and the world’s forgotten people

Kitesurfers at Dakhla, in the heart of what international law recognises as the occupied Western Sahara (Picture: Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images) Brahim Chagaf doesn’t know what it’s like to go home. ‘When you’re young, you have this dream of returning, to set up a little business and have a house by the ocean,’ he tells Metro. ‘But after a while, that wears off. You start to lose hope.’ The film director, 38, is one of the ‘forgotten people’ of Western Sahara, a tract of desert the size of Britain widely described as Africa’s last colony. For 50 years, the indigenous Sahrawi people have been forced to live under occupation or go into exile when Morocco invaded and annexed the region after Spain withdrew in 1976. Today, 173,000 Sahrawi refugees live in five camps in the harshest part of