Historical and Legal Background of the Western Sahara Issue
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Western Sahara, occupied by Morocco since 1975, is a disputed region whose destiny is sought by the United Nations and the African Union seek to determine. It encompassed a large part of the Sahara from the Atlantic coast of Africa to Egypt and Sudan. The Territory's current borders were defined by treaties
and agreements between Spain, which occupied Western Sahara on the one hand, and France, which occupied Morocco and Mauritania on the other ….. Western Sahara occupies an important area of north west Africa with coasts on the Atlantic Ocean in the western span of 1400 km, surrounded by Morocco's
far north, south-east Mauritania and north-
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