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Synonym: Western SaharaSynonym: Spanish Sahara (n). (additional references) |
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Western Sahara (EH in ISO 3166-1) is a region of northwestern Africa. Morocco virtually annexed the northern two-thirds of Western Sahara (formerly Spanish Sahara) in 1976, and the rest of the territory in 1979, following Mauritania's withdrawal. A guerrilla war carried by the Polisario Front contesting Rabat's sovereignty ended in a 1991 cease-fire; a referendum on final status has been repeatedly postponed.
From the CIA World Factbook 2000
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Crosswords: Western Sahara |
| English words defined with "Western Sahara": Islamic Republic of Mauritania ♦ Mauritania, Mauritanie, Muritaniya ♦ West Africa. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Morocco | In the Moroccan-administered Western Sahara, authorities restrict movement in areas regarded as militarily sensitive. (references) |
Morocco | The universities enjoy academic freedom in most areas, but are barred from open debate on the Monarchy, the Western Sahara, and Islam. (references) | |
Morocco | On November 1, the King prohibited the Spanish newspaper El Mundo from covering his trip to the Western Sahara, allegedly because of critical articles that it had published. (references) | |
Economic History | Morocco | The issue of sovereignty over Western Sahara remains unresolved. (references) |
Morocco | The major issue in Morocco's foreign relations is its claim to Western Sahara (See box below). (references) | |
Algeria | Since 1976, Algeria has supported the Polisario, a group claiming to represent the population of Western Sahara. (references) | |
Human Rights | Morocco | However, human rights groups and families continue to claim hundreds more cases of disappearances than the Government, which lists only 112. Many disputed disappearances are from the Western Sahara. (references) |
Morocco | Various international human rights groups' estimates of the number of persons in prison for advocating independence for the Western Sahara vary from none to 700. Amnesty International identifies 60 persons whom it considers to be political prisoners. (references) | |
Morocco | Associations in the Western Sahara that seek information on disappearances were not free from government interference; there were reports that some members of these associations were harassed and intimidated while seeking information regarding missing Sahrawis. (references) | |
Political Economy | Western Sahara | There is little organized labor activity in the Western Sahara. (references) |
Western Sahara | Moroccan unions are present in the Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara but are not active. (references) | |
Western Sahara | Moroccan law prohibits forced labor, and it does not appear to occur in the Western Sahara. (references) | |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We have supported initiatives by the Organization of African Unity to solve the protracted conflict in the western Sahara, Chad, and the Horn. |
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western sahara | 56 |
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| Language | Translations for "Western Sahara"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Vestsahara, EH. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Westelijke Sahara, EH. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Länsi-Sahara, EH. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | le Sahara occidental, EH (Western Sahara-ISO code). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Westsahara, EH. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Δυτική Σαχάρα, EH. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Sahara occidentale, EH (hey, uh?). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esternway aharasay Sara Ocidental, EH (ahoy, eider). (various references) Западная Сахара, западный сахара. (various references) Sáhara Occidental, EH (heigh, here, hey, hoy). (various references) Västsahara, EH. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-e-h-n-r-r-s-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: shearwaters. | |
-3 letters: sharewares, shearwater, warrantees. | |
-4 letters: answerers, arsenates, awareness, enswathes, hasteners, seawaters, serenatas, shareware, warrantee, wheatears. | |
-5 letters: anatases, answerer, antheses, arsenate, assenter, asserter, aweather, earnests, enswathe, harasser, hastener, heartens, hetaeras, narrates, rareness, reassert, rewashes, sarsenet, seawants, seawares, seawater, serenata, serrates, shearers, strewers, swathers, swearers, sweaters, teawares, terranes, terrases, warrants, waterers, weathers, westerns, whatness, wheatear. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 65 73 74 65 72 6E 53 61 68 61 72 61 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01100101 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101110 00100000 01010011 01100001 01101000 01100001 01110010 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W e s t e r n   S a h a r a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0065 0073 0074 0065 0072 006E 0053 0061 0068 0061 0072 0061 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)577185867184802536774678467 |
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