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Dakhla is a city in the Western Sahara with about 67,468 inhabitants, on a narrow peninsula of the Atlantic Coast.

Dakhla was founded as Villa Cisneros in 1502 by Spanish settlers during the expansion of their Empire

The main economic activity of the city is fishing.

These are houses left from the Spanish occupation.

This arch imitates the glory of the Roman emperors, so this arch imitates the Moroccan conquest of the Western Sahara.

Morocco's rule in the territory is not internationally recognized, nor is the independent republic proposed by Polisario, a Saharawi group which fought against the Spanish colonial rule and then for Western Sahara's independence

Children of Polisario claiming victory.

PAOK is everywhere, even on the Atlantic shore in Sahara.

The Saharawi group Polisario maintains an active militia of an estimated 5,000 fighters in Western Sahara and has engaged in intermittent warfare with Moroccan forces since the 1980s.

The people of the Maghreb and the Sahara speak various dialects of Berber and Arabic, and almost exclusively follow Islam.

Western Sahara is mainly inhabited by Saharawis who speak Hassaniya (a dialect of Arabic) along with a minority in the north who speak Tachelhit (a Berber language).

A local fisherman, a very good man and good friend.

No man's land, between Western Sahara and Mauritania.

It is named after the Roman province of Mauritania meaning in greek the black people

Mauritania remains as one of Africa's poorest countries. A majority of the population still depends on agriculture and livestock for a livelihood.

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