This appeared to abandon Polisario's previous position of only negotiating based on the standards of voter identification from 1991 i | Both sides blame each other for the stalling of the referendum |
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Both Morocco and the Polisario additionally accuse each other of violating the human rights of the populations under their control, in the and the in Algeria, respectively | These heavy subsidies have created a state-dominated economy in the Moroccan-controlled parts of Western Sahara |
After an agreement among the European colonial powers at the in 1884 on the division of , Spain seized control of Western Sahara and established it as a Spanish colony.
12Jacob Mundy — Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University• Western Sahara's economy is based almost entirely on fishing, which employs two-thirds of its workforce, with mining, agriculture and tourism providing modest additional income | The SADR government whose troops also patrol the area have proclaimed a village in the area, and , as SADR's former and actual temporary factual capitals |
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam | The major ethnic group of Western Sahara are the , a nomadic or ethnic group speaking the dialect of , also spoken in much of Mauritania |
Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division 2009 | Arabic News, Regional-Morocco, Politics 17 December 1998 |
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The 2010s A MINURSO car left , and a post of the Polisario Front right in 2017 in southern Western Sahara In October 2010 Gadaym Izik camp was set up near as a protest by displaced about their living conditions | The population is primarily made up of nomads who engage in herding camels back and forth between the area and Mauritania |
"Decades later, substitute "'Al-Qaeda" for "Communism" and the discourse is essentially the same.