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	<title>Wide Angle &#187; Morocco</title>
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		<title>Shutdown of Moroccan Sheikh Sanctioning Marriage at Age Nine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month a religious leader in Morocco, Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman al-Maghraoui, received a question on his website about whether a woman can get married before reaching puberty.  He responded by issuing a fatwa, or religious ruling, saying it was lawful for a Muslim man to marry girls as young as nine years old.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border Jumpers: The World&#8217;s Most Complex Borders: Morocco/Western Sahara</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diana cofresi</dc:creator>
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Start date: 1980
Length: Approximately 1,700 miles
Official purpose: Prevention of guerrilla warfare

For nearly a century, Spain controlled a region between Morocco and Mauritania known as Spanish Sahara. In 1973, members of the Sahrawi population created the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (POLISARIO Front) in hopes of gaining independence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sahara Marathon: Personal Narrative: Running Your First Sahara Marathon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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George C. Wortley, MD

George C. Wortley, MD, is a family physician with added qualifications in sports medicine. He is a faculty member for the Lynchburg Family Medicine Residency in Lynchburg, Virginia. He is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and a member of the Wilderness Medical Society. In addition to his volunteer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sahara Marathon: Photo Essay: Who are the Sahrawi?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<title>Sahara Marathon: Timeline: Sahrawi people</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[





1400s
Nomadic tribes from Yemen arrive in the area of Western Sahara.


1400-1700s
Spain begins exploratory raids in the area, resident tribes fight them off.


Late 1700s
Treaties are signed by the Spaniards and the Moroccans; intensity of fighting diminishes.


1884
Spain claims the area of Western Sahara as a protectorate.


1900
1900	Franco-Spanish Convention defines the southern border of Spain's Sahrawi colony.


1912
Spanish-French Convention further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sahara Marathon: Essay: Sahara Refugees Form a Progressive Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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When Moroccan forces invaded Western Sahara in 1975, the Sahrawi people under the banner of the Popular Front for the for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (POLISARIO Front), took up arms to defend what they believed to be their rightful homeland.
Bob Smith




Literacy and democracy are thriving in an unlikely place.
by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sahara Marathon: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the Olympics are underway in Greece this summer, WIDE ANGLE presents the story of a unique marathon that is staged annually -- in one of the world's most punishing deserts -- in the hope of drawing attention to the plight of the Sahrawi people. Torn by years of bitter guerilla warfare fought against Morocco's [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sahara Marathon: Countries That Recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/sahara-marathon/countries-that-recognize-the-sahrawi-arab-democratic-republic/1052/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[


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 [...]]]></description>
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