SAHARA

the Sahara Occidental is an african territory, of the extrem occidental of the desert sahara. the territory is it occupied by Marruecos.
the conflict of the Sahara, already extends thirty years. with wars, a town divided between exile and the occupation. the irreconciliables positions of the parts, the little effectiveness of the ONU are some of the reasons that explain the problem.

from where comes the problem comes?
the Sáhara Occidental was a Spanish colony until 1975, when Marruecos invaded it by means of the Green March. then, Spain was already had it jeopardize to the ONU instruccions, to start the trámits of decolonization for the independence of the Sahara

the war and stop the fire!
with the start of Spain of the territory a war began to get rid that faced the Polisario Front with its neighbours of the sud and nord: Marruecos - that invaded the territory in the nord, and Mauritania -that had it in the sud-. in 1979, Mauritania, declares peace for polisario Gives to and resigns to his pretensions on the territory.

what happened with the Saharan population?
a woman saharaui walks for the parks refugees of Tinduf, in Algeria. the Moroccan invasion forced to dozens of thousands of Saharan to fleeing desert up to Algerian territory, where they raised, near Tinduf's city, refugee parks. Exiles in this corner of the hardest desert of the planet, about 160.000 Saharan ones survive for 30 years in precarious conditions waiting to return to his land.Those who could not flee in 1975 remain in the territory occupied by Marruecos

the information is from: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_Occidental

and: http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2005/05/31/internacional/1117555870.html

the picture is from: http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2005/05/31/internacional/1117555870.html

another page: http://www.arso.org/intifadaletterpps160506.htm