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For years Ireland has been an active supporter of the right of the Sahrawipeople to self-determination.
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In one of the most inhospitable places on earth, the Sahrawipeople wait to hear their fate after more than three decades in limbo.
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Morocco claimed Western Sahara after colonial Spain left, but Polisario fought a guerrilla war for independence for the Sahrawipeople there until the U.N.-backed ceasefire.
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Western Sahara has been disputed since 1975 when Morocco claimed it and the Polisario movement fought a guerrilla war for the Sahrawipeople's independence there.
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It has been home to almost 200,000 of the Sahrawipeople of Western Sahara for over a quarter of a century.