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    Bou Craa (also transliterated as Bo Craa, Bu Craa or Boukra) (Arabic: بوكراع, Berber: ⴱⵓⴽⵔⴰⵄ, Spanish: Bucraa) is a town in Western Sahara, south-east...
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    settlements in Western Sahara, the capital Laayoune, and the phosphate mine at Bou Craa lie far into the Moroccan-held side. The fortifications were progressively...
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    concept designer.[citation needed]. The longest conveyor belt is that of the Bou Craa phosphate mine in Western Sahara (1973, 98 km in 11 sections). The longest...
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    contained most of the economically useful parts of Western Sahara, including Bou Craa, El-Aaiun, and Smara. The Moroccan army destroyed all the posts created...
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    in the 1940s due to the discovery of vast deposits of phosphates at the Bou Craa site fuelling a phosphate industry. The town was the scene of the Zemla...
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    phosphates from the mine Mining activities are located 140 km away by road in Bou Craa, thus far from any possible shipping area To help develop the value chain...
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    of international law. Similarly, the exploitation of phosphate mines in Bou Craa has led to charges of international law violations and divestment from...
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    smaller military outposts and repeatedly assaulted the phosphate mines of Bou Craa. It damaged the phosphate transport systems linking the mines with the...
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  • capital Laayoune, the religious center Smara, and the phosphate fields of Bou Craa. After the loss of nine F-5As during combat operations against the POLISARIO...
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    the Southern Provinces, the economically useful parts of Western Sahara (Bou Craa, El-Aaiun, Smara etc.). This stalemated the war, with no side able to achieve...
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    Bou Craa phosphate mine 100 kilometers (about 60 miles) from the coastal city of El Aaiún, Western Sahara. Two Landsat images show growth of the mine between...
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    be respected. Spain received a 35% concession in the phosphate mines of Bou Craa and offshore fishing rights that were not respected by Morocco. Morocco...
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    enclosing within it the economically useful parts of Western Sahara (Bou Craa, El-Aaiun, Smara, etc.)[citation needed] This stalemated the war, with...
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    976 North West Morocco El Argoub العركوب 1,374 5,020 North West Morocco Bou Craa بو كرع 2,519 North West Morocco Lemseid لمسيد North West Morocco Umm Dreiga...
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    posts on Tarfaya, Amgala or Guelta Zemmur, or economic objectives, as the Bou Craa phosphate conveyor belt, the Zouerat iron mines and the Mauritania Railway...
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    am Walde, Austria A Laracha Les Sables-d'Olonne, France Laudio/Llodio Bou Craa, Western Sahara Somoto, Nicaragua Leganés Aigaleo, Greece Arroyo Naranjo...
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    witnesses have not been published yet. In March 2010, a new grave was found by Bou Craa workers on a phosphate mine with 7 corpses, supposedly Sahrawi nomads killed...
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  • 3 Bir Gandouz Morocco 98.4 Bouarfa Morocco 89.8 Boujdour Morocco 102.0 Bou Craa Morocco 98.9 Boumalne Dades Morocco 100.2 Bouznika Morocco 91.8 Brazzaville...
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    10229 11 10218 Laayoune 321.01.03. Municipality 37545 183691 477 183214 Bou Craa 321.03.01. Rural commune 505 2519 0 2519 Dcheira 321.03.03. Rural commune...
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  • extraction, in the Moroccan occupation zone, particularly from a large mine at Bou Craa. Western Sahara has some of the world's large phosphate deposits and is...
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