New Zealand
for Western Sahara

Our biggest fertiliser co-operatives import phosphate rock mined from occupied Western Sahara — paying the Moroccan occupier, not the Saharawi whose land it is taken from.

Aerial view of the Bou Craa phosphate mine in occupied Western Sahara
Investigation · The Story

New Zealand is bankrolling Africa's last colony.

Follow the phosphate from an open-cast mine in the occupied desert to paddocks across Aotearoa — and the trade that keeps it moving.

The stakes

New Zealand is one of the last countries on earth still buying Western Saharan phosphate. Almost everyone else has walked away.

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