| COUNTRY | DATE OF RECOGNITION |
| Madagascar | February 28, 1976 |
| Burundi | March 1, 1976 |
| Algeria | March 6, 1976 |
| Benin | March 11, 1976 (revoked March 21, 1997) |
| Angola | March 11, 1976 |
| Mozambique | March 13, 1976 |
| Guinea- Bissau | March 15, 1976 (revoked April 2, 1997) |
| North Korea | March 16, 1976 |
| Togo | March 17, 1976 (revoked) |
| Rwanda | April 1, 1976 |
| South Yemen | February 2, 1977 |
| Seychelles | October 25, 1977 |
| Republic of the Congo | June 3, 1978 (revoked September 13, 1996) |
| Sao Tome and Principe | June 22, 1978 (revoked August 23, 1996) |
| Panama | June 23, 1978 |
| Tanzania | November 9, 1978 |
| Ethiopia | February 24, 1979 |
| Vietnam | March 2, 1979 |
| Cambodia | April 10, 1979 |
| Laos | May 9, 1979 |
| Afghanistan | May 23, 1979 |
| Cape Verde | July 4, 1979 |
| Grenada | August 20, 1979 |
| Ghana | August 24, 1979 |
| Guyana | September 1, 1979 |
| Dominica | September 1, 1979 (revoked) |
| Saint Lucia | September 1, 1979 (revoked) |
| Jamaica | September 4, 1979 |
| Uganda | September 6, 1979 |
| Nicaragua | September 6, 1979 |
| Mexico | September 8, 1979 |
| Lesotho | October 9, 1979 |
| Zambia | October 12, 1979 |
| Cuba | January 20, 1980 |
| Iran | February 27, 1980 |
| Sierra Leone | March 27, 1980 |
| Syria | April 15, 1980 |
| Libya | April 15. 1980 |
| Swaziland | April 28, 1980 (revoked) |
| Botswana | May 14, 1980 |
| Zimbabwe | July 3, 1980 |
| Chad | July 4, 1980 (revoked May 9, 1997) |
| Mali | July 4, 1980 |
| Costa Rica | October 30, 1980 |
| Vanuatu | November, 27, 1980 |
| Papua New Guinea | August 12, 1981 |
| Tuvalu | August 12, 1981 |
| Kiribati | August 12, 1981 |
| Nauru | August 12, 1981 |
| Solomon Islands | August 12, 1981 |
| Mauritius | July 1, 1982 |
| Venezuela | August 3, 1982 |
| Surinam | August 11, 1982 |
| Bolivia | December 14, 1982 |
| Ecuador | November 14, 1983 |
| Mauritania | February 27, 1984 |
| Burkina Faso | March 4, 1984 (revoked June 5, 1996) |
| Peru | August 16, 1984 (suspended relations in October 1996) |
| Nigeria | November 12, 1984 |
| Yugoslavia | November 28, 1984 |
| Colombia | February 27, 1985 |
| Liberia | July 31, 1985 (revoked September 1997) |
| India | October 1, 1985 (revoked June 26, 2000) |
| Guatemala | April 10, 1986 |
| Dominican Republic | June 24, 1986 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | November 1, 1986 |
| Belize | November 18, 1986 |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | February 25, 1987 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | February 27, 1987 |
| Albania | December 29, 1987 |
| Barbados | February 27, 1988 |
| El Salvador | July 31, 1989 |
| Honduras | November 8, 1989 |
| Namibia | June 2, 1990 |
| Malawi | November 16, 1994 |
| Source: Western Sahara Online | |
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hi,
could you tell me what might have been the reasons of the revoked recognitions?
that is a lie
12 country who recognize this terrorist groupe
most of them they are terririst state like algeria,cuba, venezuella …etc
all ppl who are in tindouf inside algeria are hostage
i live in Laayoune city Morocco not this fake western Sahara or rasd ,if anybody go to south of Morocco ( western sahara )he she will make sure there is not anything such as Polizario all the people who live in WS are Moroccan some of them they live in Algeria Tinduf against there wills thousands of Saharian came back to Morocco . this unknow fake RASD is no more than an organization created by Cuba Libya and Algeria to keep harassing Morocco because Morocco is not a communist country .look in that list and some of that countries are not a real countries and if they are real they are poor and having civil war or commi or ex commi
I live in Laayoune city Morocco( estern Sahara) and there is nothing such as sahrawi arab republic wired
There are 80 who have recognized the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (for example, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Algeria, Mauritania, Nigeria, South Africa, Iran, India, Vietnam, Timor…). Some of that countries suspended relations with the SADR later (mostly because Moroccan political or economical pressures), because according to international law on state recognitions, a country recognition cant be revoked, unless the country recognized or the country who recognize dissapear (for example, the cases of Yugoslavia or South Yemen, who recognized the SADR & later dissapear as states). You can revoke a government recognition, not a state recognition.
Leaving aside the Moroccan propaganda (communism, terrorism, islamism, blah, blah, blah), Western Sahara is today a non-decolonized territory (UN says) occupied by the Moroccan army (more than 100,000 Moroccan soldiers) & settled with Moroccans (around 200,000 Moroccan settlers). At the same time, between 150,000-200,000 Sahrawi refugees are still waiting before 34 years the returning to their occupied homeland, and nearly 20 years for a fair referendum on self-determination (that Morocco have opposed since ‘91).
The world must know the nature of the problem, there has been no polisario before 1975, this organisation was formed just when Morocco wanted to get rid of the colonization from our ligitimate land and everybody knows who might have done that. It is our neighboring country “Algeria” that has crazy thoughts about the region that is behind that. Morocco was known for supporting to the Algerian resistance headed by “Abdelkadr almohydine” when it was colonized by France,but Algeria didn’t even think about that, instead it supported polisario by hosting it in Tindouf so as to make it hard for Morocco to have it’s land back and the Algerian’s general opinion knows this but they cannot express themselves as they are threated by the government, but unfortunately it’s the Algerian people who are paying for it because they still suffer from poverty while the oil’s incomings are transferred toward polisario. Finally I’d say that the Sahara is Moroccan and it’ll be forever, forever,forever………….
I live in the United States of America and our country was founded on the basis of freedom or at least whats left of it because of bush and the Patriot Act :( The Sharawi Arab Democratic Republic deserves its freedom and recognition from the world Morroco just needs to get there fat retarted army out of there and give up the land claim we do not live in colonial times any more people seriously