Western Sahara

- Capital: Laayoune
- Population: 513,000
- Area: 266,000km²
- Official language(s): Arabic, Spanish
- Country code: +212
- Climate: Mostly Desert, extremely hot
- Time zone: GMT
- Independence: November 14, 1975
- Type of government: Governed by Morocco and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- Currency: 1 Moroccan dirham = 100 centimes

Western Sahara is located in North West Africa, most of the country is a desert landscape although there is a sizable coastline to the west. The population is 513,000 and area is 266,000km², making Western Sahara one of the least populated countries in the world per km².

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Partly Cloudy 57°F(13°C)
	Barometer:	30.18 steady
	Humidity:	94%
	Visibility:	3.73 mi
	Wind:	NNE 8 mph
	Sunrise:	7:27 am
	Sunset:	5:58 pm

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Western Sahara News
- Spain, Morocco deadlocked over Sahara activist
  
  MADRID/RABAT (Reuters) - Spain and Morocco were deadlocked on Thursday over the fate of a Western Sahara independence campaigner who is on hunger strike at ... (December 03, 2009)
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- Concert backs 'Gandhi of Sahara'
  
  Spanish artists, singers and actors have staged a concert in support of a Western Sahara activist on hunger strike on the Spanish island Lanzarote. ... (November 29, 2009)
  BBC News
- South Africa - Press Statement on the deteriorating Human Rights Situation in ...
  
  The Government of the Republic of South Africa has noted with concern the alarming reports of human rights violations in Western Sahara. ... (December 04, 2009)
  ISRIA
- Saharawi families reunited in bid to build trust
  
  Mohamed Barri with his sister Kouria, left, and their mother, Saadi Hatra, centre, in the family's house in Laayoune, Western Sahara. ... (December 03, 2009)
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- Western Sahara - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
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- Demographics of Western Sahara - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
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- Music of Western Sahara - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
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- CIA - The World Factbook -- Western Sahara
  
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- BBC News - Regions and Territories: Western Sahara
  
  Key facts about the territory disputed between Morocco and the Polisario independence movement
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Western Sahara Blogs
- Western Sahara: Activist Badly Weakened by Hunger Strike — Global ...
  
  The firm stance taken by Western Sahara independence activist Aminatou Haidar, in her third week of a hunger strike in an airport in Spain's Canary Islands, contrasts with the weak position of the Spanish government vis-à-vis the ... (December 02, 2009)
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- Western Sahara Activist in Third Week of Hunger Strike ...
  
  Western Sahara Activist in Third Week of Hunger Strike. Submitted by AidNews on December 3, 2009 - 17:50. Aminatou Haidar tried returning to Western Sahara last month after winning a prize for her peaceful resistance to Moroc... (December 03, 2009)
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- Western Sahara conflict goes on - Le Monde diplomatique - English ...
  
  There may have been three police vehicles trailing us, but Aminatou Haidar was upbeat. As she posed for photographs outside the disused prison where she had once been detained and, she says, tortured, an armour-plated police van drove ... (November 23, 2009)
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- A BOMBASTIC ELEMENT: Western Sahara/ Morocco: Hunger Strike - Day 17
  
  Western Sahara/ Morocco: Hunger Strike - Day 17. IPS's Tito Drago brings us up to speed on the face off between Haidar, Morocco and a Spanish government who does not dare risk annoying the Moroccan government: Since Nov. ... (December 03, 2009)
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