The Western Sahara War was an armed conflict between the Polisario Front, representing the indigenous Sahrawi people, and Morocco from 1975 to 1991, with Mauritania also a party from 1975 to 1979. It began after Spain withdrew from the Spanish Sahara under the Madrid Accords, which passed administration, but not sovereignty, to Morocco and Mauritania. Morocco organized the Green March of some 350,000 citizens escorted by about 20,000 troops, and it then fought a long guerrilla war against the Sahrawi nationalists, who wanted an independent state. Mauritania left the war in 1979 by signing a peace treaty with the Polisario Front. Fighting continued at low intensity through the 1980s, and a cease-fire between the Polisario Front and Morocco was reached in September 1991. Some sources put the death toll between 10,000 and 20,000 people.
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Death Toll Min Conflict TypeInsurgency or Counterinsurgency 1 Western Sahara War
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Morocco later engaged a long period of guerrilla warfare with the Sahrawi nationalists
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an armed conflict between the Sahrawi indigenous Polisario Front and Morocco from 1975 to 1991
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Some sources put the final death toll between 10,000 and 20,000 people.
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31 October 1975-6 September 1991 ()
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Inconclusive Spanish complete withdrawal under the Madrid Accords (1976) Mauritanian retreat and withdrawal of territorial claims and peace agreement with the Polisario Front. Military stalemate Ceasefire agreed on between the Polisario Front and Morocco (1991)
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In 1975, Hassan organized the Green March, a mass mobilization aimed at asserting Moroccan sovereignty over the former Spanish Sahara, leading to Morocco's control over much of the territory and the onset of the prolonged Western Sahara conflict with the Polisario Front.
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In 1975, Hassan organized the Green March, a mass mobilization aimed at asserting Moroccan sovereignty over the former Spanish Sahara, leading to Morocco's control over much of the territory and the onset of the prolonged Western Sahara conflict with the Polisario Front.
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