The Western Sahara War ( , , ) was an armed struggle Hostile_encounter between the Sahrawi indigenous Polisario Front and Morocco between 1975 and 1991 , being the most significant phase of the Western Sahara conflict Hostile_encounter .

The Western Sahara War ( , , ) was an armed struggle Hostile_encounter between the Sahrawi indigenous Polisario Front and Morocco between 1975 and 1991 , being the most significant phase of the Western Sahara conflict Hostile_encounter .

The conflict Hostile_encounter erupted Process_start after the withdrawal of Spain from the Spanish Sahara in accordance with the Madrid Accords ( signed Sign_agreement under the pressure of the Green March ) , by which it transferred Giving administrative control Control of the territory to Morocco and Mauritania , but not sovereignty .

In late 1975 , the Moroccan government organized Arranging the Green March of some 350,000 Moroccan citizens , escorted Patrolling by around 20,000 troops , who entered Arriving Western Sahara , trying to establish Building a Moroccan presence .

Today most of the territory of Western Sahara is under Moroccan control Control , while the inland parts are governed Control by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic , managed by the Polisario Front .

This was followed Motion by the Sahara Race Competition in the Sahara Desert of Egypt ( Eastern Desert ) in 2005 .

This was followed Motion by the Sahara Race Competition in the Sahara Desert of Egypt ( Eastern Desert ) in 2005 .

Minor protests occurred Coming_to_be in Djibouti , Mauritania , the Palestinian National Authority , Saudi Arabia , and the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara .

The Western Sahara conflict Hostile_encounter is an ongoing conflict between the Polisario Front and the Kingdom of Morocco .

The conflict originated Coming_to_be 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 .

Today the conflict Hostile_encounter is dominated Control by unarmed civil campaigns of the Polisario Front and their self-proclaimed SADR state to gain Getting fully recognized independence for Western Sahara .

The conflict escalated Cause_change_of_strength after the withdrawal Escaping of Spain from the Spanish Sahara in accordance with the Madrid Accords .

Following the annexation of Western Sahara by Morocco and Mauritania in 1976 , and the Polisario Front 's declaration of independence , the UN addressed Expressing_publicly the conflict Hostile_encounter via a resolution reaffirming the right to self-determination of the Sahrawi people .

At the time , most of the Western Sahara territory remained Presence under Moroccan control , while the Polisario controlled Control some 20 % of the territory in its capacity as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic , with additional pockets of control in the Sahrawi refugee camps along the Algerian border .

Despite multiple peace initiatives through the 1990s and early 2000s , the conflict reemerged Cause_to_amalgamate as the `` Independence Intifada '' in 2005 ; a series of disturbances , demonstrations and riots , which broke out Process_start in May 2005 in the Moroccan-held portions of Western Sahara , and lasted until November of that same year .

In late 2010 , the protests re-erupted in the Gdeim Izik refugee camp in Western Sahara .

Another series of protests began Process_start on 26 February 2011 , as a reaction to the failure of police to prevent Preventing_or_letting anti-Sahrawi looting in the city of Dakhla , Western Sahara ; protests soon spread Dispersal throughout the territory .

To date , large parts of Western Sahara are controlled Control by the Moroccan Government and known as the Southern Provinces , whereas some 20 % of the Western Sahara territory remains controlled Control by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ( SADR ) , the Polisario state with limited international recognition .

To date , large parts of Western Sahara are controlled Control by the Moroccan Government and known as the Southern Provinces , whereas some 20 % of the Western Sahara territory remains controlled Control by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ( SADR ) , the Polisario state with limited international recognition .

The questions of mutual recognition , establishment of a possible Sahrawi state and the large numbers of Sahrawi refugees displaced Destroying by the conflict Hostile_encounter are among the key issues of the ongoing Western Sahara peace process .

The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition between the Sahara desert in the north of Africa and the Sudanian savannas in the south , covering an area of 3,053,200 square kilometers .