security council has refused to implement its own referendum plan or allow minurso to monitor the human rights situation in the tritory. and the international media has largely ignored the occupation, in part because morocco has routinely blocked journalists from entering western sahara. but in late 2016, democracy now! successfully broke the news blockade. we were in marrakech, morocco, for the united nations climate change conference. with u.n. credentials and u.s. passports, we decided to take a chance and attempt to do what no foreigtelevision crew has done in years -- report from africa's last colony. amy: i'm amy goodman. this is democracy now! we've just landed in laayoune, the capital of western sahara, africa's last colony, hoping to report from here, occupied by morocco for more than 40 years. we're at the airport now. we'll see what happens. i'm speaking quietly on the plane because journalists, even western journalists, are rarely allowed into western sahara. we don't know if this is the moment we'll be turned back, as so many others have been. maybe it's the u.n. press badg