Tindouf - Wikipedia
WebTindouf (Arabic: تندوف, romanized: Tindūf) is the main town, and a commune in Tindouf Province, Algeria, close to the Mauritanian, Western Saharan and Moroccan borders.
Tindouf Province - Wikipedia
WebTindouf, also written Tinduf (Arabic: ولاية تندوف), is the westernmost province of Algeria, having a population of 58,193 as of the 2008 census (not including the Sahrawi refugees at the Sahrawi refugee camps). Its population in reality could be as high as 160,000 because of the Sahrawi refugee camps.
Tindouf | Algeria, Refugees, & Facts | Britannica
WebTindouf, town and oasis in the Sahara in westernmost Algeria. Rich deposits of iron ore are at Gara Djebilet, 93 miles (150 km) southeast. The town has a large population of Regeibat nomads and is strategically important because of its location near the borders of Morocco, Mauritania, and Western.
Tindouf – Travel guide at Wikivoyage
WebTindouf (Arabic: تندوف) is a town in Saharan Algeria, in the extreme southwest of the country near the border with Western Sahara. Due to a large Sahrawi population living in the refugee camps surrounding the town, Tindouf is as close as most can get to a genuine (and a politicized) Sahrawi culture, since the "Free Zone" of Western Sahara ...
Sahrawi refugee camps - Wikipedia
WebThe 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 ...
Tindouf | Encyclopedia.com
WebTINDOUF. A strategically important Saharan town in western Algeria, situated near large mineral deposits. Tindouf is close to Algeria's borders with Mauritania, Morocco, and Western Sahara. It was an administrative outpost built largely by the French colonial government and became a political and economic hub in the years after Algeria gained ...
Tindouf Map - Tindouf Province, Algeria - Mapcarta
WebTindouf is a town in Saharan Algeria, in the extreme southwest of the country near the border with Western Sahara. Due to a large Sahrawi population living in the refugee camps surrounding the town, Tindouf is as close as most can get to a genuine Sahrawi…. Map. Directions. Satellite.
Off the Radar: Human Rights in the Tindouf Refugee Camps | HRW
WebOct 18, 2014 · For four decades tens of thousands of Sahrawi refugees have lived in remote refugee camps in the Sahara desert near the Algerian town of Tindouf.
Tindouf: A bright spark in Saharawi-Algerian solidarity
WebMay 9, 2018 · Historically, Tindouf was a city where the inhabitants survived on a nomadic lifestyle, and its population was 100% Algerian. That all changed when, in 1975, war broke between Western Sahara and Morocco, and half of the Saharawi population, seeking refuge, fled across the Saharawi-Algerian border to Tindouf.
Tindouf, Saharan - Algeria - Algeria.com
WebTindouf is a city in the western part of Saharan-Algeria with a population of about 30,000 residents. It was built in 1852 by members of the Sahrawi Tajakant tribe, near an isolated Saharan oasis, but got sacked and destroyed by Reguibat Sahrawis in 1895.
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