Smara refugee camp (Arabic: مخيم السمارة) is one of the Sahrawi refugee camps located in Tindouf province in southwest Algeria. According to UNHCR statistics and the Algerian Red Crescent, the camp has a population of about 39,000 Sahrawi refugees.[2][3] Attempts to create an accurate census have been met with resistance from the Moroccan government.[4] The refugee camp was named after the Western Saharan city of Smara. It is located about 30 miles (50 km) from Tindouf.[3]
After his visit to the Smara refugee camp, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke of a "human tragedy" and said the world "must act" to help the Sahrawi people. He rejected criticism from Morocco of his remarks on Western Sahara, and pledged to push for action to advance peace efforts.[5]
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^Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena (May 2011). "Protracted Sahrawi displacement" (PDF). Refugee Studies Centre.
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Smararefugeecamp (Arabic: مخيم السمارة) is one of the Sahrawi refugeecamps located in Tindouf province in southwest Algeria. According to UNHCR statistics...
Aaiun, Awserd, Smara, Dakhla and more recently Cape Bojador (or the daira of Bojador). In addition, there is a smaller satellite camp known as "February...
Tindouf, Algeria, there still exists a Sahrawi refugeecamp named after Smara. It is one of the four camps of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic administration...
the supposed independent ESISC's report Michael Palin's visit to SmaraRefugeeCamp The self determination process of the former Spanish Sahara Portal:...
Sahara War. The refugeecamp was established shortly after Rabouni, along with Smaracamp. Regarding the camp, the mayor of El Aaiun camp has stated that...
exile) in the 1995-1998 period, and also as Wali (Governor) of the Smararefugeecamp, near Tindouf. He was named to that post of Prime Minister by SADR...
Western Sahara (Awserd, Laayoune, Smara and Dakhla). As of January 2018, the number of Sahrawi refugees living in the five camps in Tindouf is estimated about...
in the Smara institute clashes (II) Testimonies of Sahrawi students injured in the Smara institute clashes (III) Footage of Sahrawi refugees who fled...
the SADR. It is also the name of a Daïra of the Wilaya of Smara, in the Sahrawi refugeecamps. In 2010, the population of Tifariti was estimated at around...
a long time. Ma al-Aynayn the Saharan pro-Moroccan caïd of Tindouf and Smara named by the Moroccan sultan started an uprising against the French in 1910...
retaliation, severely damaged the holy city of Smara in 1913. Not until the second destruction of Smara in 1934, by joint Spanish and French forces, did...
artist that has been transforming the refugeecamp landscape by creating works of art amongst the devastation in camps that have existed for four decades...
in 2008. It is also the name of a Daïra of the Wilaya of Smara, in the Sahrawi refugeecamps. The name "Bir Lehlou" is transcribed from Maghrebi Arabic...
Tichla. It then runs generally northeastward, leaving Guelta Zemmur and Smara, again crossing Mauritanian territory and reaching Haouza in Moroccan-held...
aerial bombardments with Napalm and White phosphorus of the Sahrawi refugeecamps, the consequent exodus of tens of thousands of Sahrawi civilians from...
was born in Smara on 19 August 1949. Ghali joined the Spanish-led Tropas Nómadas in the late 1960s and was subsequently dispatched to Smara for administrative...
"Mohamed VI a nommé un tortionnaire notoire au poste de wali de Guelmim-Smara". DemainOnline. Archived from the original on 31 January 2014. Retrieved...
refugeecamps, at the southwest corner of Algeria, near the border with Western Sahara. It is the only film festival in the world held in a refugee camp...
Lehlou v 27th of February Boujdour Fariq Dakhla v Chahid Mahfoud El Welad Smara "فريق اتحاد العيون يتوج ببطولة كأس الجمهورية الصحراوية لكرة القدم". Sahara...
Members come from constituencies based either on the districts of the refugeecamps or the military regions of the SADR; while mass organisations and the...
from Western Sahara. He was born in a nomadic family at the Ued Hawa, near Smara (Western Sahara) in 1966. All his brothers and sisters do poetry, and his...
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