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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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    Sáhara Occidental) was an armed struggle between the Sahrawi indigenous Polisario Front and Morocco from 1975 to 1991 (and Mauritania from 1975 to 1979), being...
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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 a...
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    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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    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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    Kingdom of Morocco and the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario Front), which is an independence movement...
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    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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    Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (category Polisario Front)
    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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    main function of the barriers is to exclude guerrilla fighters of the Polisario Front, who have sought Western Saharan independence since before Spain ended...
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    Moroccan Armed Forces and the Polisario Front. Both sides asserted divergent narratives of the battle. The Polisario Front, a political movement demanding...
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    Democratic Republic (SADR), represented at the United Nations by the Polisario Front, broke out in the disputed region of Western Sahara in November 2020...
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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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    Free Zone (region) (category Polisario Front)
    المنطقة الحرة, romanized: al-minṭaqa al-ḥurra) is a term used by the Polisario Front government of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, a partially recognized...
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    El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed (category Polisario Front politicians)
    nationalist leader, co-founder and second Secretary-General of the Polisario Front. El-Ouali was born in 1949 in a Sahrawi nomad encampment somewhere...
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  • Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba Liwa Fatemiyoun Liwq Zulfiqar Baqir Brigade Polisario Front (Alleged) (Denied by Hezbollah) Plurinational Association of Tawantinsuyo...
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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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    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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    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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  • 1980s, several members of POLISARIO have decided to discontinue their military or political activities for the Polisario Front. Most of them returned from...
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    considers the Polisario Front as a separatist movement given the alleged Moroccan origins of some of its leaders. The Polisario Front argues that according...
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    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 New...
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  • 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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    of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic refers to politics of the Polisario Front's proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, a country in North Africa...
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    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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    prompting them to begin supporting a Sahrawi nationalist group, the Polisario Front. In the late 1970s, the group began conducting guerrilla warfare in...
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    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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  • Haniyeh in Sanaa. The Polisario Front in Western Sahara condemned the attack. In Mauritania, two mass protests were held in front of the US embassy and...
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    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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    Brahim Ghali (category Polisario Front politicians)
    rule, the foundation of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro (Polisario Front) in 1973, and the Sahrawi Republic in...
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  • 1979, following Mauritania's withdrawal. On February 27, 1976, the Polisario Front formally proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and set up...
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