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- <text>
- <title>
- Western Sahara: Government
- </title>
- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Western Sahara
- Government</hdr><body>
- <list>
- <l>Names:</l>
- <l> conventional long form: none</l>
- <l> conventional short form: Western Sahara</l>
- </list>
- <p>Digraph: WI
- </p>
- <p>Type: legal status of territory and question of sovereignty
- unresolved; territory contested by Morocco and Polisario Front
- (Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Rio
- de Oro), which in February 1976 formally proclaimed a government
- in exile of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR);
- territory partitioned between Morocco and Mauritania in April
- 1976, with Morocco acquiring northern two-thirds; Mauritania,
- under pressure from Polisario guerrillas, abandoned all claims
- to its portion in August 1979; Morocco moved to occupy that
- sector shortly thereafter and has since asserted administrative
- control; the Polisario's government in exile was seated as an
- OAU member in 1984; guerrilla activities continued sporadically,
- until a UN-monitored cease-fire was implemented 6 September 1991
- </p>
- <p>Capital: none
- </p>
- <p>Administrative divisions: none (under de facto control of
- Morocco)
- </p>
- <p>Leaders: none
- </p>
- <p>Member of: none
- </p>
- <p>Diplomatic representation in US: none
- </p>
- <p>US diplomatic representation: none
- </p></body></article></text>
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