A teenage boy concentrates during boxing training in the Smara refugee camp’s sports centre. Still waiting for the self-determination referendum promised by the UN 39 years ago, thousands of refugees from Western Sahara live in this camp in Tindouf province, west Algeria. Many young people are unemployed and there is a lack of opportunities.
Despite years of peaceful protest, often brutally repressed by Moroccan authorities, there has been little progress towards independence since Morocco invaded Western Sahara in 1975.
