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The office of President of Western Sahara is a head of state position over the parliamentary government of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. The president is based in the refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria. Though a term originally coined for Republican presidents, a head of state or chief of state is now universally known as the chief public representative of a nation-state, federation or commonwealth, whose role generally includes personifying the continuity and legitimacy of the state and exercising the political powers, functions...
The Saharawi (or Sahrawi) Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) is the long-form English translation of the government of Western Sahara (Arabic: الجمهورية العربية الصØراوية الدمقرطية, Spanish: República Arabe Saharaui Democrática). ...
Tindouf, also written Tinduf, is a city and wilaya in the west of Algeria, pop. ...
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| The World Factbook 2004 -- Western Sahara (345 words) |
 | Western Sahara depends on pastoral nomadism, fishing, and phosphate mining as the principal sources of income for the population. |
| Moroccan energy interests in 2001 signed contracts to explore for oil off the coast of Western Sahara, which has angered the Polisario. |
| Incomes and standards of living in Western Sahara are substantially below the Moroccan level. |
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