A gateway to enter the city of Dakhla in Western Sahara, in 2024.
Photographer: Raquel Maria Carbonell Pagola/LightRocket/Getty Images
A Remote and Disputed Corner of Africa Is Cheering Trump
The territory of Western Sahara is turning into an ‘El Dorado’ after the US recognized Morocco’s claim over the region.
The blue of the Atlantic glitters on the horizon as trucks, cranes and hundreds of workers transform an obscure swath of desert into a crucial trade link. A new causeway extends more than a mile into the ocean, divided into harbors that will eventually load phosphate, gas and seafood bound for European and Latin American shores.
It’s all part of Dakhla Atlantic Port, a $1.2 billion project that promises to connect a disputed corner of Africa with the rest of the world thanks, paradoxically, to the man who is now upending globalization.