Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
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Sahrawi people
The Sahrawi, or Saharawi people, are the people living in the western part of the Sahara desert which includes Western Sahara (claimed by the Polisario and mostly controlled…
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Western Sahara War
The Western Sahara War was an armed struggle between the Sahrawi indigenous Polisario Front and Morocco between 1975 and 1991, being the most significant phase of the Western Sahara…
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Madrid Accords
The Madrid Accords, also called Madrid Agreement or Madrid Pact, was a treaty between Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania to end the Spanish presence in the territory of Spanish Sahara, which was…
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Spanish Sahara
Spanish Sahara, officially the Overseas Province of the Spanish Sahara, was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when it…
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Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
The Sahrawi Republic, officially the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR; also romanized with Saharawi, is a partially recognized state that claims the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara, but controls only the easternmost one-fifth…
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North Africa
The term “North Africa” has no single accepted definition. It is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Morocco in…
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