The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) is a partially recognized de facto sovereign state located in the western Maghreb. It claims the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara, but controls only the easternmost one-fifth of that territory. Between 1884 and 1975, Western Sahara was known as Spanish Sahara, a Spanish colony.
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The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) is a partially recognized de facto sovereign state located in the western Maghreb. It claims the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara, but controls only the easternmost one-fifth of that territory. Between 1884 and 1975, Western Sahara was known as Spanish Sahara, a Spanish colony. The SADR is one of the two African states in which Spanish is a significant language, the other being Equatorial Guinea. The claimed capital is former Western Sahara capital El-Aaiún, while the temporary capital moved from Bir Lehlou to Tifariti in 2008. The UN considers the Polisario Front to be the legitimate representative of theSahrawi people, and maintains that the people ofWestern Sahara have a right to self-determination and independence. The constitution defines the eventual eventual Saharan state as a Muslim, African, and Arab people. It also declares a commitment to the principles of a Greater Pan-Arabism, regional variant of Pan- Arabism.
Since its inception in 1976, the highest office of the republic has been the President of the SahRAWi National Council, who appoints the Prime Minister, presently Mohamed Wali Wali Akei. The government structure consists of a Council of Ministers, a judicial branch and the parliamentary branch. It is a full member of the African Union, and has diplomatic relations with 40 UN states, and is a member of UNESCO and the African League of Nations. It calls the territories under its control the Liberated Territories or the Free Zone. Morocco controls and administers the rest of the disputed territory, and calls these lands its Southern Provinces. The U.N. considers the Moroccan-held territory to be occupied territory, while Morocco considers the much smaller S ADR-held Territory to be a buffer zone. The name SahrawI derives from the romanization of the Arabic word Ṣaḥrāwī meaning “Inhabitant of the Desert”
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