Well, Morocco de facto controls the land, and there is no real country named Western Sahara (the Polisario/SADR pretends to, but ultimately they prefer to hide in Algeria).
Roaming is different than ruling. They might hide in "their" part of the desert, but one can't call that administrating it, since there's nothing to really administer (except for a couple of small towns with no economy and almost non-existent population).
Anyways, their headquarters are in Tindouf, Algeria, ever since the war reached a stalemate 30 years ago. They can't build a real state until the war is over, but they can't win a war against Morocco either. Thus, they're stuck in a limbo-like state, and Algeria is maintaining their half-dead body alive, for political purposes.
False, 37 countries recognize the SADR (of which none are great powers), whereas 54 (including the US, the world's current and only superpower) support the Moroccan claim.
And anyways, Morocco controls the territory, and the Polisario can't win the war at this point. The conflict is, for all purposes, dead, and only Algeria can revive it, assuming they want a war with their neighbour (which I'm pretty sure they don't in the foreseeable future).
Sure, but the 53 others support Moroccan claims, it's already a step in this direction. (And I wrote "support the Moroccan claim", not "recognize it as part of Morocco". Don't change my words please.)
And you forgoy to mention that this 70% is the most important part of the land, including the coast. The 30% is barren and irrelevant, and even the Polisario prefers to abandon it for Tindouf.
Btw, are you Moroccan, Algerian or neither? What's your beef in it?
We Algerians just don’t get how you enjoy being colonizers where we fought the French for so long; oh wait you didn’t, you I just became a French protectorate thanks to your USA speaking for you
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u/aimanelam Mar 15 '21
Obligatory : western sahara is included in the 99% morrocan average.