Since their launch on March 5, 2004, the Sahrawi family visits exchange benefited some 5,382 people, 2,829 of whom live in the Tindouf Camps.
Polisario is a separatist movement that lays claims to Morocco's Southern Provinces, known as The Sahara, a territory, which Morocco had retrieved from Spanish rule under the Madrid Accord, signed in 1975 with Spain and Mauritania. A year later, Polisario lured thousands of Moroccan Sahrawis into joining it in the Tindouf camps where they have been held ever since.
Source: MAP
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