What is Polisario Front?
The '''Polisario Front''' ({{lang-es|Frente '''Po'''pular para la '''Li'''beración de [[Saguia el Hamra|'''Sa'''guía el Hamra]] y [[Río de Oro|'''Rí'''o de '''O'''ro]]}}, {{lang-ar|الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير الساقية الحمراء ووادي الذهب}} transliterates to ''{{transl|ar|al-dshabha ash-shaʿbīya li-tahrīr as-Sāqiya al-Hamrā’ wa-Wādī dh-Dhahab}}'', translates to ''Popular Front for the Liberation of el Hamra and Río de Oro'') is a rebel [[militia]] group and political party, which is active in [[Western Sahara]]. The movement succeeded the older movement called ''Movimiento para la Liberación del Sahara'', which was active until the 1960s. The movement was founded in the early 1970s. It was first active fighting for the independence of the [[Spanish Sahara]], which was a [[Spain|Spanish]] [[colony]] until 1975. After the Spanish left, [[Mauritania]] and [[Morocco]] annexed the Western Sahara, the Polisario, however, claimed the entire Western Sahara under the [[Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic]]. In 1991, the [[United Nations]] brokered a peace agreement. Nowadays, Western Sahara is split into two zones, separated by the [[Moroccan Wall]]. Morocco controls [[de facto]] most of the territory. <gallery> File:Polisario troops.jpg|Parade of Polisario Troops in Western Sahara, celebrating the 32nd anniversary of the Polisario, in 2005 File:Mohamed Abdelaziz.jpg|The person in white is [[Mohamed Abdelaziz]] the first leader of the Frente Polisario File:Western sahara walls moroccan map-en.svg|Western Sahara, the territory marked in yellow is controlled by the Polisario Front </gallery> [[Category:Western Sahara]] [[Category:Nationalist organizations in Africa]] [[Category:National liberation movements]] [[Category:Rebel militia groups in Africa]] [[Category:1970s establishments in Africa]] {{politics-stub}}