In 1975, Spain relinquished administrative control of Western Sahara to a joint administration by Morocco (which had formally claimed the territory since 1957) and Mauritania. A war erupted between those countries and the Sahrawi National Liberation Movement, which proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) with a government-in-exile in Tindouf, Algeria. About the Map Disputed Territor
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