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Map of the tribes of Western Sahara. The Sahrawis, or Sahrawi people (Arabic: صحراويون ṣaḥrāwīyūn), are an ethnic group native to the western part of the Sahara desert, which includes the Western Sahara, southern Morocco, much of Mauritania, and along the southwestern border of Algeria.
the Sahrawi people, a Hassaniya-speaking ethnic group in the Maghreb region of Africa . the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, a partially recognized Sahrawi state . holders of Sahrawi passports (see Sahrawi nationality law)
The Sahrawi refugee camps (Arabic: مخيمات اللاجئين الصحراويين; Spanish: Campamentos de refugiados saharauis), also known as the Tindouf camps, are a collection of refugee camps set up in the Tindouf Province, Algeria, in 1975–76 for Sahrawi refugees fleeing from Moroccan forces, who advanced through Western Sahara during the Western Sahara War.
The biggest concentration of Sahrawi refugees was created in 1975–76, when Sahrawi refugees were fleeing from Moroccan forces, who advanced through Western Sahara during the Western Sahara War between Morocco and Sahrawi Polisario Front.
Sahrawis have been present in Spain since the Spanish colonisation of Western Sahara.The specific number of Spaniards of Sahrawi origin is unknown due to the fact that the Spanish government does not collect data on ethnicity or racial self-identification, together with Spain not recognising Sahrawi nationality documents from the largely unrecognised Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
The major bulk of Saharawis became refugees during the war between the Polisario Front and Morocco. The south-western desert region near Tindouf offered a potential safe region. Algeria, in its rivalry with Morocco, offered the Sahrawis a safe place to settle and actively supported the Polisario.
The Western Sahara conflict is an ongoing conflict between the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic/Polisario Front and the Kingdom of Morocco.The conflict originated from an insurgency by the Polisario Front against Spanish colonial forces from 1973 to 1975 and the subsequent Western Sahara War against Morocco between 1975 and 1991.
"Yā Banī al-Ṣaḥrāʼ" (Arabic: يا بني الصحراء, romanized: Yā Banī al-Ṣaḥrāʼ, lit. 'O Sons of the Sahara'; Spanish: ¡O hijos del Sáhara!) is the national anthem of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) of Western Sahara.