{"id":39842,"date":"2025-10-26T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/10\/26\/winds-and-waves-tourism-takes-off-in-disputed-western-sahara\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:01:53","slug":"winds-and-waves-tourism-takes-off-in-disputed-western-sahara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/10\/26\/winds-and-waves-tourism-takes-off-in-disputed-western-sahara\/","title":{"rendered":"Winds and waves: Tourism takes off in disputed Western Sahara"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Kitesurfers are flocking to the windswept beaches of Western Sahara, attracted by some of the best conditions in North Africa. Once largely overlooked, the region is slowly emerging as a niche tourism hotspot, even as it remains a disputed territory claimed by both Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front, backed by Algeria. Visitors are discovering pristine coastline and challenging waters, bringing fresh attention \u2013 and new tensions\u00a0\u2013 to this politically sensitive desert region.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kitesurfers are flocking to the windswept beaches of Western Sahara, attracted by some of the best conditions in North Africa. Once largely overlooked, the region is slowly emerging as a niche tourism hotspot, even as it remains a disputed territory claimed by both Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front, backed by Algeria. Visitors are discovering &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-39842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}