![Indigenous Sahrawi girls play on an improvised see-saw at a refugee camp of Boudjdour in Tindouf, southern Algeria March 3, 2016. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is scheduled to visit the Sahrawi refugees in south-west Algeria's Tindouf region. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTS96QU](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2016/08/RTS96QU.jpg/RTS96QU.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=1RuFr5ES)
Habibulah Mohamed Lamin is an independent journalist based in Algeria. He contributes to Al-Monitor, The New Arab, Middle East Eye, ThinkProgress and Refugees Deeply. On Twitter: @habibullahWS
![Indigenous Sahrawi girls play on an improvised see-saw at a refugee camp of Boudjdour in Tindouf, southern Algeria March 3, 2016. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is scheduled to visit the Sahrawi refugees in south-west Algeria's Tindouf region. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTS96QU](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2016/08/RTS96QU.jpg/RTS96QU.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=1RuFr5ES)
![Brahim Ghali (C), new secretary general of Polisario Front and president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), walks at the Sahrawi refugee camp of Dakhla, southeast of the Algerian city of Tindouf, July 9, 2016. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina? - RTSH3RO](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2016/07/RTSH3RO.jpg/RTSH3RO.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=wItBQkvZ)
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![Indigenous Sahrawi women walk through Al Smara desert refugee camp in Tindouf, southern Algeria March 4, 2016. In refugee camps near the town of Tindouf in arid southern Algeria, conditions are hard for indigenous Sahrawi residents. Residents use car batteries for electricity at night and depend on humanitarian aid to get by. The five camps near Tindouf are home to an estimated 165,000 Sahrawi refugees from the disputed region of Western Sahara, according to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR. REUTERS/](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2016/06/RTS9CD3.jpg/RTS9CD3.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=f7Gr3csa)
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![An indigenous Sahrawi woman walks outside her tent in Al Smara desert refugee camp in Tindouf, southern Algeria March 4, 2016. In refugee camps near the town of Tindouf in arid southern Algeria, conditions are hard for indigenous Sahrawi residents. Residents use car batteries for electricity at night and depend on humanitarian aid to get by. The five camps near Tindouf are home to an estimated 165,000 Sahrawi refugees from the disputed region of Western Sahara, according to the United Nations refugee agency](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2016/05/RTS9CCU.jpg/RTS9CCU.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=nFQ5uAmJ)
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![Women walk by Moroccan police on the streets of El Aaiun, western Sahara, November 6, 2005. Moroccan police were on alert fearing Saharawi demonstrations calling for self-determination to the Saharawi people on the 30th anniversary of the Green March. On November 6, 1975 the so-called Green March into Western Sahara began when 300,000 Moroccans crossed into Western Sahara following the orders of King Hassan II of Morocco to force Spain to hand over the territory. As a result, Spain abandoned Western Sahara](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2016/04/RTR1A9HV.jpg/RTR1A9HV.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=QJzYgnRH)
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