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According to UNHCR statistics and the Algerian Red Crescent, the camp has a population of about 39,000 Sahrawi refugees. [1] [2] Attempts to create an accurate census have been met with resistance from the Moroccan government. [3] The refugee camp was named after the Western Saharan city of Smara. It is located about 30 miles (50 km) from ...
El Aaiun refugee camp (Arabic: مخيم العيون) is one of the Sahrawi refugee camps located in Tindouf province in southwest Algeria. It is located 5 miles (10 km) from Tindouf . According to UNHCR statistics for 2003, the camp had a population of 36,675 Sahrawi refugees . [ 1 ]
This is a list of Algerian cities and towns with more than 100,000 inhabitants, and towns and villages with more than 20,000 inhabitants. For a list of all the 1,541 municipalities of Algeria, see List of municipalities of Algeria, and for the postal code of an Algerian city, see list of postal codes of Algerian cities.
The Sahrawi refugee camps (Arabic: مخيمات اللاجئين الصحراويين; Spanish: Campamentos de refugiados saharauis), also known as the Tindouf camps, are a collection of refugee camps set up in the Tindouf Province, Algeria, in 1975–76 for Sahrawi refugees fleeing from Moroccan forces, who advanced through Western Sahara during the Western Sahara War.
The camp is the settlement most easily accessible by paved road from Tindouf. [1] [2] On 23 October 2011, suspected Al-Qaeda militants kidnapped three foreign aid workers from Rabouni. It was not until July 2012 that they were released by Islamist militants who had been holding them in northern Mali. Consequently, SADR authorities constructed ...
The modern day Sahrawis are a mixed ethnic group of Arabs, West Africans & diverse Berbers. The people inhabit the westernmost Sahara desert, in the area of modern Mauritania, Morocco, Western Sahara, and parts of Algeria. (Some tribes would also traditionally migrate into northern Mali and Niger, or even further along the Saharan caravan routes.)
Awserd refugee camp (Arabic: مخيم أوسرد) is a Sahrawi refugee camp located in Tindouf province in southwestern Algeria. As of 2003, the camp had a population of about 32,624 refugees. [ 1 ] It is named after Awserd in Western Sahara .
Towards the end of World War II, a UNRRA refugee camp name Camp Jeanne d'Arc was established near the city. On 25 January 1945, 200 Jews holding citizenship from countries in North and South America were sent from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Switzerland as part of a prisoner exchange group. They were later sent to the UNRRA camp in ...