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Polisario Front
The Polisario Front is a Sahrawi nationalist movement founded in May 1973 to end Spanish rule in Western Sahara. After Spain handed the territory to Morocco and Mauritania, it proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in February 1976 and fought both countries, forcing Mauritania to withdraw in 1979. A United Nations ceasefire with Morocco in 1991 promised a referendum that never took place, and fighting resumed in 2020.
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