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Sahrawi: Maghreb's forgotten refugees (38 images)

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As soon as the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara started and the vicious and bloody war diffused, nearly 160,000 Sahrawis made their way across the desert, under aerial bombardment, to refugee camps in Algeria. Five camps were created under the control of the Polisario Front - the Sahrawis' national liberation movement, which had been created two years earlier to overthrow Spanish colonial rule. Algeria effectively ceded control of the region to Polisario, allowing it to be run as a...
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