 I'm Amir Kiayi and I'm representing the Democracy in Europe Movement 25, the M25, on this mission to Assad and the rest of the refugee camps in Tindu, Algeria. We have seen the incredible solidarity and spirit that the Saharabi people have shown as they're approaching five decades of struggle. And it's a struggle that is Europe especially complicit in whether that's through expanding trade with the main coloniser in this case, Morocco and not taking up its responsibility of decolonisation which would fall on Spain as well as providing arms and weaponry and so on for the conflict to continue. Throughout the European Union, no country has recognised the Saharabi Arab Democratic Republic which is yet another indication of the defeat of the sovereignty of the people in Europe and the importance of the M25's mission of democratising Europe. There's been so much impact on us here, whether it was the amazing welcome and the generosity displayed by the Saharabi people and their steadfastness and the struggle that's on display after 47 years of being in these extremely harsh conditions. We've also visited an indigenous innovation around farming for example which surpasses everything that is possible in the worst conditions possible. There's an acupuncture farm with a complete water cycle for example that's being developed here. Climate change has been intensifying of course greatly globally but the effects are really seen here in the refugee camps. The very little agriculture that is possible here that's been done experimentally hasn't really worked as well as it could have. They've had more challenges with extreme weather events which happened a few years ago and destroyed quite a lot of the refugee housing and as you can see around you here that there's not much housing to begin with in the first place. The very little resources that they have has had to actually go into coping with the climate change situation on top of dealing with about a high rate of inflation as well as reduced humanitarian aid due to the Ukrainian crisis. The European response has been really shameful in this context of Western Sahara. The Spanish government's reaction and tacit implicit support from the government for the Moroccan autonomy plan. They're moving up France closer to the position of Morocco on this issue and of course expansion of trade between the EU and Morocco despite numerous UN General Assembly Security Council resolutions that very clearly highlight the right of the Sahrawi people to a referendum which has promised to them in around 1975-1976 and that still hasn't taken place. And the geopolitical situation of course is changing and the interplay between the energy crisis as well as the refugee crisis is being used as a catalyst towards further entrenching colonisation in occupied parts of Western Sahara. One of the major effects of course of the war in Ukraine and the sudden availability of funds to further fuel the conflict there through weapons and so on and we know about 100 billion euros that suddenly Germany had to expand on its military and immediate increase to 2% or more of national spending to meet NATO standards is also causing an internal escalation on arms spending throughout Europe. This obviously has an effect of reducing the little humanitarian aid funding that was available. So the Sahrawi people at the moment are apart from the UNHCR, WFP and so on funding rely heavily on people-to-people organisations primarily based in Spain but of course throughout the world and Latin America, Cuba, Venezuela etc. that are sustaining the population here. In terms of forecasting this into the future we know that with the conflict continuing at the same pace as it is and of course as I mentioned earlier on creating that inflationary pressure the situation here could get worse however we've also witnessed the agility and the response of the Sahrawi government here anticipating that future and dealing with that and responding to it. In our meetings with the officials, with the people, with the civil society members and so on that every meeting we've had even with our host family the core message has been that this forgotten conflict and it is a conflict situation it's important that the world remembers and does not forget about the continued colonisation of the Sahrawi people's land taking the message back to our homes and to our people, to our organisations and to the wider public has been the core that has been lost of us.