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    The Polisario Front, Frente Polisario, Frelisario or simply Polisario (from the Spanish acronym of Frente Popular de Liberación de Saguía el Hamra y Río...
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    Sahara Occidental) was an armed struggle between the Sahrawi indigenous Polisario Front and Morocco from 1975 to 1991 (and Mauritania from 1975 to 1979)...
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    erupted between those countries and a Sahrawi nationalist movement, the Polisario Front, which proclaimed itself the rightful leadership of the SADR with...
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    Arab Democratic Republic/Polisario Front and the Kingdom of Morocco. The conflict originated from an insurgency by the Polisario Front against Spanish colonial...
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    between 13 and 22 January 2023 to renovate the governing bodies of the Polisario Front and establish the movement's main lines of action and strategy for...
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    Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (category Polisario Front)
    language, the other being Equatorial Guinea. The SADR was proclaimed by the Polisario Front on 27 February 1976, in Bir Lehlou, Western Sahara. The SADR government...
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    Moroccan-controlled areas (the Southern Provinces) on the west from the Polisario-controlled areas (Free Zone, nominally Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)...
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    Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario Front), which is an independence movement based in Tifariti and Bir Lehlou...
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    Free Zone (region) (category Polisario Front)
    The Free Zone or Liberated Territories is a term used by the Polisario Front government of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, a partially recognized...
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    between 15 and 22 December 2011 to renovate the governing bodies of the Polisario Front and establish the movement's main lines of action and strategy for...
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  • pesetas Demographics User(s) Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Issuance Central bank Polisario Front Valuation Pegged with Euro (166.386 pesetas = €1)...
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  • the Polisario Front (Arabic: مؤتمر جبهة البوليساريو, Spanish: Congreso del Frente Polisario) is the supreme decision-making body of the Polisario Front...
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    For example, both sides in the Western Sahara conflict (Morocco vs. the Polisario Front) draw heavily on colonial history to prove their version of reality...
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    Democratic Republic (SADR), represented at the United Nations by the Polisario Front, in the disputed region of Western Sahara. It was the latest escalation...
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    Brahim Ghali (category Polisario Front politicians)
    the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro (Polisario Front) in 1973, and the Sahrawi Republic in 1976. He also played a major...
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    insurgency led by the Polisario Front against Spanish colonial rule in the Spanish Sahara, from 10 May 1973 to 26 February 1976. The Polisario Front was formally...
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    as a French-operated transport force, and has seen combat against the Polisario Front in the 1970s. The Mauritania Islamic Air Force came into being shortly...
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    in June 1976 was a significant military operation carried out by the Polisario Front, a Western Saharan guerrilla group, against the Mauritanian capital...
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    general congress of the Polisario Front, where it was decided the post were to be held by the Secretary-General of the Polisario. The first President was...
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    four-year war with the Polisario, Mauritania relinquished Tiris al-Gharbiyya, withdrew from Western Sahara, and left Morocco and the Polisario as the sole belligerents...
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  • in 1979, following Mauritania's withdrawal. On February 27, 1976, the Polisario Front formally proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and set...
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    the United Nations in 2007. The Polisario rejected the plan and put forward its own proposal. Morocco and the Polisario Front held UN-sponsored talks in...
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    and prompting them to begin supporting a Sahrawi nationalist group, the Polisario Front. In the late 1970s, the group began conducting guerrilla warfare...
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    was internal pressure from the native Sahrawi population, through the Polisario Front, and the claims of Morocco and Mauritania. After gaining independence...
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    Front Polisario Khat al-Shahid (Khat al-Shahid, often with Spanish transliteration as Jat Chahid, is Arabic for Line of the Martyr) is a minor faction...
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    eastern third controlled by the Polisario Front by the Moroccan Western Sahara Wall or "the Berm," referred to by the Polisario Front as the "Free Zone." The...
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    armed wing of the Polisario Front prior to the foundation of the Republic. Its commander-in-chief was the Secretary General of the Polisario, but the army...
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    is administered by Polisario. Local qadis (sharia judges) have jurisdiction over personal status and family law issues. Polisario has prioritised education...
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  • the 1980s, several members of POLISARIO have decided to discontinue their military or political activities for the Polisario Front. Most of them returned...
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    had paved way for a cease-fire in the conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front (representing the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) over the contested...
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