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Western Sahara is the last colony in Africa. Originally the country was occupied by Spain (officially in 1934). In 1965 the United Nations passes a resolution that Spain is to leave Western Sahara and to help the territory to transition to independence. Spain leaves, Morocco sends over 350,000 Moroccan civilians with troops to occupy Western Sahara. There's much more to the history, but the bottom line is that Western Sahara is still occupied by Morocco, the Sahrawis have no say in how their lan
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