~160,000[2] mostly in the Moroccan-controlled zone where they make up about 30% of the population
Algeria
174,000 refugees living in the Sahrawi refugee camps at Tindouf.[3]
Morocco
90,000[4]
Mauritania
26,000 (Refugees)[5]
Spain
3,000[6]–12,000[7]
Languages
Hassaniya Arabic (native), Berber languages (native), Modern Standard Arabic (written only), Spanish (lingua franca), French (lingua franca)
Religion
Predominantly Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Beidane, Moroccans, other Maghrebi Arabs, other Arab-Berbers and Arabized Berbers, other Arab and Berber peoples, Haratin, Gnawa, Afro-Arabs, Tuaregs, other Maghrebis[8]
Map of the tribes of Western Sahara
The Sahrawis, or Sahrawi people (Arabic: صحراويونṣaḥrāwīyūn), are an ethnic group native to the western part of the Sahara desert, which includes the Western Sahara, southern Morocco, much of Mauritania, and along the southwestern border of Algeria. They are of mixed Hassani Arab and Sanhaji Berber descent, as well as West African and other indigenous populations.[9]
As with most peoples living in the Sahara, the Sahrawi culture is a mix of Arab and indigenous African elements.[9] Sahrawis are composed of many tribes and are largely speakers of the Hassaniya dialect of Arabic.[10]
^"Africa :: Western Sahara - The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency". cia.gov. 17 November 2020. Archived from the original on 17 November 2020. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
^Shefte, Whitney (6 January 2015). "Western Sahara's stranded refugees consider renewal of Morocco conflict". The Guardian.
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^Morocco overview-Minorities-Saharawis Archived 19 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples
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^"La policía detuvo a saharauis en Jaén al pedir la residencia". El País. 16 June 2010. Retrieved 3 July 2010.
^Carmen Gómez Martín. La migracion saharaui en Espana. Estrategias de visibilidad en el tercer tiempo del exilio. Retrieved 21 August 2012. Page 52, Note 88:"Actualmente es imposible aportar cifras exactas sobre el número de saharauis instalados en el país, ya que no existen datos oficiales elaborados por la administración española o por las autoridades saharauis. A través de la información recogida durante el trabajo de campo de la tesis se calculó su número entre 10.000–12.000 personas, instaladas de preferencia en la costa mediterránea (Cataluña, Comunidad Valenciana, Murcia y Andalucía), Islas Canarias, País Vasco y Extremadura" (in Spanish)
^"Western Sahara: Kitesurfing in the Dakhla Danger Zone". BBC. 25 December 2016.
^ abatlasofhumanity.com. "Sahrawi People". Atlas Of Humanity. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
^Julio, Javi (21 November 2015). "Desert schools bloom in Sahrawi refugee camps – in pictures". the Guardian. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
The Sahrawis, or Sahrawi people (Arabic: صحراويون ṣaḥrāwīyūn), are an ethnic group native to the western part of the Sahara desert, which includes the...
only Sahrawis 'indigenous' to Western Sahara during the Spanish colonial period, not the total number of "ethnic" Sahrawis (i.e., members of Sahrawi tribal...
estimates that around 20,000 Sahrawis have limited competencies in Spanish The SADR acted as a government administration in the Sahrawi refugee camps located...
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nomadic groups, among whom intertribal conflicts were frequent. In 1957, Sahrawis began to enroll in the Moroccan Army of Liberation and launched attacks...
the arrested Sahrawis put the health of several at risk, and the action was aborted. On 14 December 2005, 14 pro-independence Sahrawis and human-rights...
000 registered Sahrawi refugees in Mauritania. They formed a majority of people with refugee status in the whole Mauritania. The Sahrawis who did not flee...
The Sahrawi peseta (Arabic: البيزيتا الصحراوي, Spanish: Peseta saharaui) is the currency of the partially recognized Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic....
Tlili by several young Sahrawis who were principally educated in Morocco and conscious of Third World liberation movements. The Sahrawi People's Liberation...
Spanish army had killed a group of Sahrawis protesting for independence in the square. The students were also joined by Sahrawi political prisoners, arguing...
fall of 1975, as a result of the Moroccan advance, tens of thousands of Sahrawis fled Morocco-controlled cities into the desert, building up improvised...
nationality. Due to the Sahrawi Republic not being recognised by Spain, most Sahrawis ended up being recognised as stateless. Sahrawis living under Moroccan...
political appointments to diaspora Sahrawis, for fear of infiltration and difficulties in communicating with Sahrawis in the Moroccan-controlled territories...
and those Sahrawis educated at universities abroad can rarely if ever find opportunities to use their skills.[citation needed] Some Sahrawis work in nearby...
Spanish-language education to Sahrawis in Western Sahara and the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria. A group of Sahrawi poets known as 'Generación de la...
moved to dismantle the Gdeim Izik tent camp. Approximately 6,500 tents Sahrawis had erected in early October to protest their social and economic conditions...
encampment located near an oasis, it was always a kind of seasonal town for the Sahrawis, an Arabic-speaking Bedouin people controlling the area since medieval...
regarding decolonisation. There was internal pressure from the native Sahrawi population, through the Polisario Front, and the claims of Morocco and...
Sahara. Moreover, the ICJ invoked the right of self-determination for Sahrawis through their free and genuine expression of such will. Morocco defied...
with the First Sahrawi Intifada – protests by Sahrawi activists in the Western Saharan Southern Provinces (1999–2004), Second Sahrawi Intifada or Independence...
romanized: Ibrāhīm Ġālī, born 19 August 1949) is a Sahrawi politician, military officer and current president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), formerly...
China relations Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus relations membership Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic recognition relations Republic of South Ossetia...
loanwords are reinforced due to Sahrawis studying abroad in Hispanic lands and returning to either Western Sahara or the Sahrawi refugee camps. Regarding the...
The Sahrawi National Council (SNC; Arabic: المجلس الوطني الصحراوي, Spanish: Consejo Nacional Saharaui) or Sahrawi Parliament is the legislature of the...
between 1982 and 1985. Algerian authorities have estimated the number of Sahrawi refugees in Algeria to be 165,000. Diplomatic relations with Algeria were...
attractive. Clothing worn by the Sahrawis include the daraa robe. Women wear the mefhla headscarf. Daily bread ritual Sahrawi Andrew Borowiec (2003). Taming...
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